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Recent Examples of radicalism
Fortunately, Kaplan quickly dispenses with this generic figure of resistance and dives into what made Decca’s radicalism so singular.
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Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
Zinn was a professor at Spelman College in the early and mid 1960s but was eventually fired after clashes with the school's administration over his own radicalism.
—Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025
Royalist émigrés began to trickle back into the country in 1795, and a number of Jacobins who renounced their earlier radicalism were also reintegrated into civil society.
—Time, 21 Oct. 2025
And after Vance this week criticized The Nation for publishing a critical column about Kirk, which partially misquoted him, its publisher Bhaskar Sunkara underscored that the magazine did not take money from the two foundations that the vice president has accused of funding radicalism.
—David Weigel, semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
Zinn was a professor at Spelman College in the early and mid 1960s but was eventually fired after clashes with the school's administration over his own radicalism.
—Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025
Royalist émigrés began to trickle back into the country in 1795, and a number of Jacobins who renounced their earlier radicalism were also reintegrated into civil society.
—Time, 21 Oct. 2025
And after Vance this week criticized The Nation for publishing a critical column about Kirk, which partially misquoted him, its publisher Bhaskar Sunkara underscored that the magazine did not take money from the two foundations that the vice president has accused of funding radicalism.
—David Weigel, semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for radicalism
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Despite taking a progressive stand on labor, the Church nonetheless defended industrialization and private-property rights, forging a middle way that rejected both unfettered capitalism and socialism.—
Elias Wachtel,
The Atlantic,
25 Apr. 2026
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And there’s some socialism as the cherry on top.—
Editorial Board,
Washington Post,
24 Apr. 2026
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The loss of Kidal represents a significant blow to Russia’s credibility in Mali, where the military junta has relied on mercenaries to combat Islamic extremism.—
Wilson Mcmakin,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Apr. 2026
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The Democrat brand is a toxic, failed disaster, and Republicans look forward to forcing these nut jobs to answer for their extremism.—
Irene Wright,
USA Today,
26 Apr. 2026
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Erdoğan first emerged during the post-Cold War decade of unipolar, American triumph, adopting the language of free markets, liberalism, and human rights, and stretched those politics of optimism into the brief euphoria of the Obama years.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Apr. 2026
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Naqvi’s blend of ethical business and economic hyper-liberalism now seems like a throwback to a different era.—
Hettie O'Brien,
The Dial,
21 Apr. 2026
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But this often requires accepting the fundamental irrationality of the wrapping-up process.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2026
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The irrationality of politicians suddenly makes sense.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
24 Feb. 2026
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“Radicalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/radicalism. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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