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Recent Examples of radicalism
More broadly, Iranian American artists yearn for a future when Iran isn’t automatically conflated in American popular culture with theocracy, militancy and radicalism.
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Dan Bilefsky, HollywoodReporter, 25 July 2025
Intellectually, the era was one of radical ferment, but radicalism worked on the canonical: D. H. Lawrence and Thomas Hardy remained royalty in schools and universities, thanks to the king-making attentions of Williams and F. R. Leavis.
—Book Marks
july 17, Literary Hub, 17 July 2025
This is what happens when democracies turn a blind eye to growing ideological radicalism within their own borders.
—Margaux Chetrit, Sun Sentinel, 29 May 2025
Affixed with a marijuana plant over a communist star, the flag demonstrates the melding of cultural and political radicalism in some activist quarters and sheds light on why many Americans opposed the anti-war movement than the war itself.
— Made By History, Time, 30 Apr. 2025
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Dan Bilefsky, HollywoodReporter, 25 July 2025
Intellectually, the era was one of radical ferment, but radicalism worked on the canonical: D. H. Lawrence and Thomas Hardy remained royalty in schools and universities, thanks to the king-making attentions of Williams and F. R. Leavis.
—Book Marks
july 17, Literary Hub, 17 July 2025
This is what happens when democracies turn a blind eye to growing ideological radicalism within their own borders.
—Margaux Chetrit, Sun Sentinel, 29 May 2025
Affixed with a marijuana plant over a communist star, the flag demonstrates the melding of cultural and political radicalism in some activist quarters and sheds light on why many Americans opposed the anti-war movement than the war itself.
— Made By History, Time, 30 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for radicalism
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The ideologies of antifa adherents are based on various left-wing causes, including communism, anarchism and socialism, while many also support environmentalism, the rights of indigenous populations and LGBTQ+ rights.—
Robert Birsel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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Students aren’t told how socialism has plunged Venezuela into starvation since voters opted for socialist Hugo Chavez in December 1998.—
Betsy McCaughey,
Boston Herald,
12 Sep. 2025
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The straining of tensions, further fuelled in this age of social media extremism and hyper nationalism, has unfortunately bubbled over onto the field.—
Tristan Lavalette,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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And investigators believe it was motivated by some extremism.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 Sep. 2025
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In fact, the choice Koreans faced at the end of 1948, between a one-party communist state and an autocratic liberalism, was between two options that had very little support at the beginning of the occupation.—
Kornel Chang
September 19,
Literary Hub,
19 Sep. 2025
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Modern conservatism developed its own history and internal logic, emerging not merely in opposition but alongside liberalism as a powerful response to the social and economic upheavals of the early 20th century.—
Allan J. Lichtman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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This irrationality, which is especially difficult to model, often boils down to computational constraints.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Radicalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/radicalism. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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