Noah Rothman’s ‘Blood and Progress’ shines a light on left-wing violence
For decades, academic and popular histories have treated political violence as a phenomenon defined largely by its distance from the naturally occurring liberal center. In Blood and Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence in America, National Review senior writer Noah Rothman challenges that asymmetry. The book does not simply recount episodes of left-wing political violence, but interrogates the intellectual frameworks and institutional networks that have sustained and normalized them.
- ▪For decades, academic and popular histories have treated political violence as a phenomenon defined largely by its distance from the naturally occurring liberal center.
- ▪In Blood and Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence in America, National Review senior writer Noah Rothman challenges that asymmetry.
- ▪The book does not simply recount episodes of left-wing political violence, but interrogates the intellectual frameworks and institutional networks that have sustained and normalized them.
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For decades, academic and popular histories have treated political violence as a phenomenon defined largely by its distance from the naturally occurring liberal center. “The rise of the right” is cast in apocalyptic terms — more Darth Vader than ordinary politics, its actors, many of whom bear little resemblance to traditional conservatism, depicted as aberrations: dangerous, irrational, and fundamentally alien to the democratic order, operating in secret and speaking in code to thwart liberal heroes.
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