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Recent Examples of radicalism
The radicalism is that neither composer nor librettist reveals that this actually works.
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Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
His social politics have mostly voiced the same conservative impulse to preserve and fight for the spirit of equality but to avoid radicalism, however defined.
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2025
Paris Agreement exit signals return of American energy dominance
What matters more: America's economy or European climate radicalism?
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
You’ve probably been told that radicalism is something that only happens in places like San Francisco or New York City.
—Ryan Nawrocki, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2025
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Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
His social politics have mostly voiced the same conservative impulse to preserve and fight for the spirit of equality but to avoid radicalism, however defined.
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2025
Paris Agreement exit signals return of American energy dominance
What matters more: America's economy or European climate radicalism?
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
You’ve probably been told that radicalism is something that only happens in places like San Francisco or New York City.
—Ryan Nawrocki, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for radicalism
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In other words, despite its seeming departure from Maine’s binary logic, the Second World was really a slice of the non-West that, contrary to expectations, embraced an explicitly secular and modernizing agenda: socialism.—
Zachariah Mampilly,
Foreign Affairs,
1 Apr. 2025
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What's happening in Illinois exemplifies modern socialism's playbook.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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Mykhailo Savva of the Expert Council of the Center for Civil Liberties said rights advocates know of 307 Ukrainian civilians convicted in Russia on criminal charges — usually espionage or treason, if the person held a Russian passport, but also terrorism and extremism.—
Hanna Arhirova,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Apr. 2025
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The next generation will not inherit a society built on genuine understanding and progress, but one defined by ideological extremism masquerading as compassion.—
Kevin Waldman,
Twin Cities,
10 Apr. 2025
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On these matters, he is not guided by rational cost-benefit analysis or dealmaking so much as by real animus against democracy, liberalism, and the West, together with a determination to resurrect the Russian empire.—
Michael McFaul,
The Atlantic,
10 Mar. 2025
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The original Nature article that features the heatmaps examines how the two main political ideologies — liberalism and conservatism — reflect differences in the levels of moral compassion.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
3 Mar. 2025
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“Radicalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/radicalism. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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