Author: Ben Lorber

• Insurrection: How Trump Prepped His Far-right Army for Years to Invade the Capitol

  “A Confederate flag, a shirt reading ‘Camp Auschwitz,’ militia and paramilitary insignia, and white nationalist symbols: These were some of the members of the mob of Trump supporters who stormed…

• “King Trump”: In Wake of Biden Victory, White Nationalists and MAGA Mobs March in DC

  My latest at Political Research Associates, on the coalition of far-right groups mobilizing for Trump’s Stop the Steal movement to overturn the results of the 2020 election. “What appeared to…

• If Trump Loses, Then What?

  For the magazine of the UK anti-extremism group Hope Not Hate, I co-wrote a piece on the state of the U.S. far-right in the 2020 presidential election, alongside PRA colleague…

• Speechwriter for US Congressman Channels White Nationalism

  My latest at Political Research Associates, on far-right operative Darren Beattie, and his connections to white nationalist movements and across the U.S. Right. “On July 22, far-right House Republican and…

• A Constellation of Threats: Far-Rightists Respond to the BLM Uprising

  My latest at Three Way Fight, on the response of different movements on the U.S. Right to the summer 2020 George Floyd uprising. “It’s important to remember that when we…

• Antisemitic and Anti-Black: Conservative Jewish Magazine Features Uncensored White Nationalism

  My latest at Political Research Associates, on the intellectual architect of white nationalism, Kevin MacDonald; the intersection of antisemitism and anti-blackness; and the decision by Tablet magazine, a right-wing American…

• Understanding White Nationalism and Antisemitism in the Era of COVID-19

  This is a transcript of a talk I gave at Bend the Arc’s 2020 Conference, Pursuing Justice, on rising white nationalism and antisemitism in the era of COVID-19. —– I’m…

• ‘Primitive, Diseased Invaders’ Threatening America: How Scapegoating ultra-Orthodox Jews for Coronavirus Mirrors Islamophobia

  My latest at Haaretz. “On April 29, New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio claimed “the Jewish community” is disobeying social distancing orders enforced during the coronavirus lockdown, condemning a…

• ‘Murder Most Foul’: Bob Dylan, Walter Benjamin, and Radical Remembrance in the Era of COVID-19

  The events surrounding the historian, and in which he himself takes part, will underlie his presentation in the form of a text written in invisible ink. The history which he…