My guest is Nadia Marzouki. Nadia is a Research Fellow in Political Science at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris, France. Her work examines public controversies about Islam and religious freedom in Europe and the United States. She has written and co-edited several books, including Islam, an American Religion, published by Columbia University Press in 2017, and with Olivier Roy and Duncan McDonnell of Saving the People, How Populists Hijack Religion, published by Hurst and Oxford University Press in 2017. We talk about Islam and Islamophobia in France and the US and the newest enemy of the French government, the so-called Islamo-Lefists. Nadia tweets at @NadiaMarzouki1.

This is the first of a new special series of RADIKAAL, the Special Election Series (SES), in which we discuss a  very recent election with an expert.

My guest today is my colleague and friend, Sarah de Lange. Sarah holds the Dr. J.M. Den Uyl Chair at the Department of Political Science of the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. She has published widely on far right and populist politics in Western Europe and is also involved in research on social democratic parties. A much-consulted expert on Dutch politics, she is the perfect guest for the first Special Election Edition of RADIKAAL, which focuses on the Dutch election of last week. Sarah is very active on Twitter, where she tweets in Dutch and English on Dutch politics, social democracy, and the far right and populism. Do follow her at @sldelange.

My guest today is Gooyong Kim, Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities at the Cheney University of Pennsylvania. He has published extensively on various aspects of K-Pop, the topic of today’s podcast, including his book “From Factory Girls to K-Pop Idol Girls: Cultural Politics of Developmentalism, Patriarchy, and Neoliberalism in South Korea's Popular Music Industry”, published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2018.  We talk about the economics, gender, and soft power of K-Pop.

My guest today is my colleague and friend Cynthia Miller-Idriss. Cynthia is Professor in the School of Public Affairs and in the School of Education at American University and runs the new Polarization and Extremism Research & Innovation Lab in the Center for University Excellence. She is also Director of Strategy and Partnerships at the UK-based Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR) and serves on the international advisory board of the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) in Oslo. She has published many articles and books on the far right, including The Extreme Goes Mainstream: Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany and Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right, both with Princeton University Press, in 2017 and 2020, respectively. You can follow her on Twitter at @milleridriss.

My guest today is David Miliband. David is CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), a global humanitarian aid, relief, and development NGO, founded in 1931 by Albert Einstein.  Before joining the IRC, David held several cabinet positions in various Labour governments, including that of British Foreign Secretary. In 2017 he published the TED book “Rescue: Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time” and in 2019 he gave a Fulbright Lecture entitled “The New Arrogance of Power: Global Politics in the Age of Impunity”. If you want to know more about the IRC, you can go to their website at www.rescue.org. You can follow David Miliband on Twitter at @DMiliband.

David and I talk about the Third Way, the future of social democracy, the plight of refugees, and the "age of impunity" and how to overcome it.

My guest today is Lisa Zanotti. Lisa is an Associate Researcher at the Research Institute for Social Sciences of the Diego Portales University in Santiago de Chile. Lisa finished her PhD on “Populist Polarization in Italian Politics: An Assessment from a Latin American Analytical Perspective” in 2019, shared between Leiden University and Diego Portales. She has written articles on the Great Recession and populism and is co-author, with José Rama, Stuart J. Thurnbull-Dugarte and Andrés Santana, of the new book “VOX: The Rise of the Spanish Populist Radical Right”, which will be out with Routledge this summer. Lisa tweets at @LisaZanottiPhD.

LIsa and I talk about the new populist radical right party in Spain: VOX. Why did it succeed where others failed? What is its ideology and who votes for them? What has been its impact on Spanish politics?

My guest today is Manisha Tailor, the CEO of Swaggarlicious, an organization that uses football to create social cohesion and help with mental health problems. She is also a coach at the academy of Queens Park Rangers (QPR), a London football club that plays in The Championship. Manisha is a celebrated activist and speaker on issues related to football, and was awarded a prestigious MBE for services to football and diversity in sport in 2017. She tweets at @swaggarlicious_Manisha and I talk about football and mental health as well as gender and race in football.

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My guest today is Karim Zidan. Born and raised in Cairo, Egypt, Karim is an investigative reporter who works on the intersection of sports and politics. He has written for many different publications, from mainstream newspapers like The Guardian to specialized blogs like Right-Wing Watch. Karim writes about many sports, from basketball to boxing, but much of his recent work is on Mixed Martial Arts, and he is one of the managers of Bloody Elbow, the MMA and UFC blog of SB Nation. He tweets at @ZidanSports.

Karim and I talk about the connections between (fight) sports and (far right) politics, from ultras and the Tahir Square revolution, to Saudi Arabia and sportswashing, and Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) and the far right. 

My guest today is Stanislav Vysotsky, who is an associate professor in Criminology at the University of Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of the book, American Antifa: The Tactics, Culture, and Practice of Militant Antifascism, which came out with Routledge earlier this year. His current research is focused on analyzing the dynamics between protesters, counter-protesters, and police at fascist rallies as well as looking at the dynamics of targeted harassment of antifascists by supremacist activists.

Stas and I talk about the history and current structure of Antifa in the US, about its views on the use of violence, its effectiveness, and whether or not it constitutes a threat to the fabric of American society .;-)

My guest today is Nicole Hemmer, an associate research scholar with the Obama Presidency Oral History project at Columbia University. She specializes in the history of conservative media in the United States from the 1940s to the present, and the role of right-wing media in American electoral politics. In 2016 she published Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of US Politics, one of the key texts on the topic, with the University of Pennsylvania Press. Nicole is also an incredible public communicator. She is a columnist at CNN Opinion, the founder of the Made in History section of the Washington Post, and co-host of the podcast Past Present. Finally, Nicole did a 6-part podcast on the Unite the Right rally and its historical context, called A12. 

Nicole and I talk about the roots of conservative media in the US, the international connections, the current main players, and the Trump effect and legacy. Everything and everyone are discussed from Breitbart to Fox News to Sinclair and from Glenn Beck to Sean Hannity and Donald Trump Jr.