Between Good & Evil

In Times of Extremism, Know Thyself

This essay on the mechanisms of radicalization, I wrote some years ago when in Scandinavia and Europe various forms of extremes, such as right wing nationalism and fundamentalist Islamism, still seemed in their infancy. When I still thought they would be easily halted. That didn’t happen. On the contrary, even in the US, the land of the free, this extre…