Just learned my essay on why people voted for #trump was the most read piece in The @TheConversationUS in 2024 with over #4million clicks #. Thanks to the readers for their engagement.
https://theconversation.com/why-so-many-people-voted-for-trump-5-things-to-understand-about-maga-supporters-thinking-239031

**Are there ways to dialogue across the #Trump-#Harris divide at this fraught time in #uspolitics?**
My public-facing Sapiens mag essay centers on lessons learned about #depolarization at an #Election2024 violence prevention event held in #Kenosha by the remarkable grassroots organization Urban Rural Action. It’s also a first small publication related to a #newbook I’m writing.
https://www.sapiens.org/culture/political-polarization-violence-prevention-wisconsin/

Honored to learn that #Perpetratrators won a 2023 #choiceawards for Outstanding Academic Title from the ALA! Thanks to my co-author Tony Robben and StanfordUP
bit.ly/3x6WbyK

**What's the pulse of the #MAGA movement?**

I went to #CPAC last week to find out. My ConversationUS piece presents some initial reflections on the hard-core #Trump base, including that, far from a threat to democracy, they view #Trump as its salvation. #anthropology @histodons
https://theconversation.com/i-went-to-cpac-as-an-anthropologist-to-understand-trumps-base-they-believe-more-than-ever-he-is-a-savior-224205

**new podcast — Is the U.S. again at risk for democratic #Backsliding and even violence? #Trump promises #Retribution, refers to opponents as #vermin, and threatens a #DeepState purge – among other things. I discuss this and more in relation to NYU Press #ItCanHappenHere bit.ly/3MhFDt9 on mAlette Smeulers terrific new podcast series.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4YAYw0sAvZJFZiTzr767e8?si=0mbee3cvSPikdf8Yk3anmw&nd=1&dlsi=54a92a0ee4824c55

Amid many questions and deep concern in the classroom about mass violence in #Israel and #Gaza , I wrote this short
ConversationUS explainer (not an op-ed) about the term #genocide.
https://theconversation.com/both-israel-and-palestinian-supporters-accuse-the-other-side-of-genocide-heres-what-the-term-actually-means-217150

Thanks to Ugur Ümit Üngör for interviewing me and Tony Robben about our new Stanford University Press book #perpetrators in the Journal of Perpetrator Research. Thanks also Susanne Knittel and the other JPR co-editors @sociology @anthropology @histodons
https://storage.googleapis.com/jnl-wu-j-jpr-files/journals/1/articles/120/64a01054b522a.pdf

Many thanks to the great #scienceandcocktails" team in Copenhagen for inviting me to speak about #TheDarkSideofHumanity." The public-facing talk, which touches on #evil, mass violence, and perpetration, is now posted.
@anthropology @histodons
@sociology
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kDrmdEL8qgk

My SAPIENS essay unpacking two key #myths about #transgender people is out. The essay is based on my observations at #CPAC2023. Thanks to Emily Sekine and the great @SAPIENS_org team for helping to raise awareness about #transphobia ! @anthropology
@sociology @politicalscience https://www.sapiens.org/culture/transphobia-myths/

My essay on interviewing a Khmer Rouge torturer in #Cambodia is out with #ontheSeawall today. This creative non-fiction piece got started with David Lazar at Chautauqua.

“I remember sweating, shirt stuck to my skin, in a desolate jungle in Cambodia, while you sat at ease on the wooden platform, gnawing chicken dripping with grease, how you cracked the bones, sucked the marrow, told me about the prisoners you tortured during the genocide..."
https://www.ronslate.com/pol-pots-secret-prison/

**Should the US help the #ICC investigate #Russia’s many atrocity crimes in #Ukraine?
My #latimes oped argues “of course”— and that the Pentagon’s fears that helping the ICC will make trials of US soldiers for their own past atrocity crimes (#torture, executions, etc) more likely are misplaced. Take a look! @histodons @anthropology @sociology @politicalscience
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-03-14/ukraine-russia-war-crimes-icc-united-states

**What's the pulse of the #Trumpian base?**
I went to #cpac2023 to find out. #Transphobia was one of six CPAC #demons I found -- along with a self-appointed “warrior” to slay them and the rocky road of #Trumpism looming ahead in the #2024Election. @histodons @anthropology
@sociology
https://theconversation.com/i-went-to-cpac-to-take-maga-supporters-pulse-china-and-transgender-people-are-among-the-top-demons-they-say-are-ruining-the-country-201442

**Has Russia committed #genocide in #Ukraine?**
On the anniversary of Russia’s invasion, my op-ed in The Hill argues the answer is #yes. In doing so, I discuss the politics of naming and differentiate between colloquial, legal, and social scientific understandings of genocide - and how each can lead to different conclusions.
@anthropology @histodons @violence
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/3859439-a-year-on-we-have-clear-evidence-of-genocide-in-ukraine/amp/

**Are #whitepower extremist shooters lone wolves?**
Unfortunately, many people still believe so. On the heels of the sentencing of #BuffaloShooting Tops Market and #ElPaso Walmart mass shooters this month (both got life), I published this The Conversation piece about the tenacious #lonewolf myth. @violence@a.gup.pea @anthropology @histodons
https://theconversation.com/violent-extremists-are-not-lone-wolves-dispelling-this-myth-could-help-reduce-violence-200434

**New Book Release Day!**

What’s it like to #interview, research, and write about #perpetrators of genocide and mass #violence? And how do perpetrator researchers process the difficult #emotions involved?
Drawing on our years of research on perpetrators and #extremists, my just released Stanford University Press book, co-authored with #TonyRobben, takes up these fraught issues. bit.ly/3x6WbyK

Please take a look: tinyurl.com/4zrvdxve / 20% off with the code (ROBBENHINTON20)