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Laird Wilcox
Laird Maurice Wilcox is an American researcher of political fringe movements. He is the founder of the Wilcox Collection of Contemporary Political Movements, housed in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas. Early life Wilcox was raised in a family with, as he described, "political intensity".Wilcox, Carrie (Mar. 22, 2009)"The Wilcox Collection." Interview with Laird Wilcox.via YouTube. His relatives' politics ranged from socialist to membership in the far-right John Birch Society. Wilcox's father was a construction accountant. His family moved frequently. Staff writer (Aug. 12, 1992)"Campus Journal; Far Left and Far Right Meet in a Midwest Library."''New York Times'', vol. 141p. B6.Archived fro/ref> Wilcox attended the University of Kansas. He joined the Students for a Democratic Society and later dropped out of college. While living in Olathe, Kansas, he worked as carpenter, investigator and writer.Staff writer (Oct. 12, 2005)"Wilcox Collection of Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazis, Communists, Klansmen, And Others On The Fringe
''Nazis, Communists, Klansmen, and Others on the Fringe: Political Extremism in America'' is a 1992 book by John George and Laird Wilcox. It is an examination of political extremism of both the far left and far right in the United States. The authors attempt to summarize the pre-1960 historical background of American extremist movements, discuss conspiracy theories and their validity, offer their insight on what motivates extremists, and discuss a number of contemporary groups on the " far left" and "far right" based principally on their personal contacts with approximately six hundred individual extremists and the extremists' own writings. It was published by Prometheus Books (Buffalo, New York) in 1992 as a 523-page hardcover (). In 1996, Prometheus Books (Amherst, New York) republished it as ''American Extremists: Militias, Supremacists, Klansmen, Communists and Others'' in a 443-page paperback ({{ISBN, 1-57392-058-4). Overview The authors give the history of their persona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whole Earth Review
''Whole Earth Review'' (''Whole Earth'' after 1997) was a magazine which was founded in January 1985 after the merger of the '' Whole Earth Software Review'' (a supplement to the '' Whole Earth Software Catalog'') and the ''CoEvolution Quarterly''. All of these periodicals are descendants of Stewart Brand's ''Whole Earth Catalog''. The last published hard copy issue of the magazine was the Winter 2002 issue. The next issue (Spring, 2003) was planned but never published in hard copy format. Bruce Sterling attempted to solicit funds for this issue by writing that "friends at ''Whole Earth Magazine'' have experienced a funding crunch so severe that the Spring 2003 special issue (#111) on Technological Singularity, edited by Alex Steffen of the Viridian curia, hasn't been printed and distributed. ''Whole Earth'' is soliciting donations to get the issue printed, and has put some of the content online." Eventually, elements of the 2003 issue appeared only in digital format on the '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Sim or SIM may refer to: Computing and technology *SIM card or Subscriber Identity Module, used by mobile telephones *HP Systems Insight Manager, a system management tool * Scientific instrument module in the Apollo command and service module *Security information management in computer security *Selected ion monitoring, a mass spectrometry scanning mode * Computer simulation *Space Interferometry Mission, cancelled by NASA * Organizations *''Service de sécurité incendie de Montréal'' *Scuola Italiana di Montevideo, the Italian day school of Montevideo, Uruguay *Serving In Mission (formerly Sudan Interior Mission), a Christian mission organization *''Servicio de Inteligencia Militar'', a former Dominican intelligence service *'' Servicio de investigación Militar'', a former Spanish military intelligence service *''Servizio Informazioni Militari'', a former Italian military intelligence service *Singapore Institute of Management * Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Kinney
Jay Kinney (born 1950) is an American author, editor, and former underground cartoonist. Kinney has been noted for "adding new dimensions to the political comic" in the underground comix press of the 1970s and '80s. Kinney was a member, along with Skip Williamson, Jay Lynch and R. Crumb, of the original '' Bijou Funnies'' crew. ''Bijou Funnies'' was heavily influenced by '' Mad'' magazine, and, along with '' Zap Comix'', is considered one of the titles to launch the underground comix movement.Fox, M. Steven"Bijou Funnies,"ComixJoint. Accessed Oct. 21, 2016. Kinney contributed to the first four issues (1968–1970), as well as the eighth and final issue (1973). Next, Kinney and Bill Griffith co-edited '' Young Lust'', an underground comix anthology published sporadically from 1970 to 1993. The title, which parodied 1950s romance comics such as '' Young Love'', was noted for its explicit depictions of sex. Unlike many other sex-fueled underground comix, ''Young Lust'' was general ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Missouri-Kansas City
A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, the designation is reserved for colleges that have a graduate school. The word ''university'' is derived from the Latin ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". The first universities were created in Europe by Catholic Church monks. The University of Bologna (''Università di Bologna''), founded in 1088, is the first university in the sense of: *Being a high degree-awarding institute. *Having independence from the ecclesiastic schools, although conducted by both clergy and non-clergy. *Using the word ''universitas'' (which was coined at its foundation). *Issuing secular and non-secular degrees: grammar, rhetoric, logic, theology, canon law, notarial law.Hunt Janin: "The university ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Routledge
Routledge () is a British multinational publisher. It was founded in 1836 by George Routledge, and specialises in providing academic books, journals and online resources in the fields of the humanities, behavioural science, education, law, and social science. The company publishes approximately 1,800 journals and 5,000 new books each year and their backlist encompasses over 70,000 titles. Routledge is claimed to be the largest global academic publisher within humanities and social sciences. In 1998, Routledge became a subdivision and imprint of its former rival, Taylor & Francis Group (T&F), as a result of a £90-million acquisition deal from Cinven, a venture capital group which had purchased it two years previously for £25 million. Following the merger of Informa and T&F in 2004, Routledge became a publishing unit and major imprint within the Informa "academic publishing" division. Routledge is headquartered in the main T&F office in Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfords ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington Times
''The Washington Times'' is an American conservative daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., that covers general interest topics with a particular emphasis on national politics. Its broadsheet daily edition is distributed throughout the District of Columbia and in parts of Maryland and Virginia. A weekly tabloid edition aimed at a national audience is also published. ''The Washington Times'' was one of the first American broadsheets to publish its front page in full color. ''The Washington Times'' was founded on May 17, 1982, by Unification movement leader Sun Myung Moon and owned until 2010 by News World Communications, an international media conglomerate founded by Moon. It is currently owned by Operations Holdings, which is a part of the Unification movement. Throughout its history, ''The Washington Times'' has been known for its conservative political stance, supporting the policies of Republican presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Stacy McCain
Robert Stacy McCain (born October 6, 1959) is an American conservative journalist, writer, and blogger. McCain is a former assistant national editor and reporter for ''The Washington Times'' and co-author (with Lynn Vincent) of the 2006 book ''Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Democratic Party''. He is proprietor of the blog, The Other McCain. Early life Robert Stacy McCain was born on October 6, 1959. Career ''The Washington Times'' McCain joined the staff of ''The Washington Times'' in November 1997. In addition to his regular duties as an editor, McCain also contributed numerous by-lined news and feature articles to ''The Washington Times''. He frequently reported on controversial issues in the "culture war," including stories related to sexuality, education, and history. His writing about communism included feature stories about Joseph McCarthy, ''The Black Book of Communism'', and the obituary of former U.S. Communist Party leader Gus Hall. McCain's reporting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chip Berlet
John Foster "Chip" Berlet (; born November 22, 1949) is an American investigative journalist, research analyst, photojournalist, scholar, and activist specializing in the study of extreme right-wing movements in the United States. He also studies the spread of conspiracy theories. Since the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, Berlet has regularly appeared in the media to discuss extremist news stories. He was a senior analyst at Political Research Associates (PRA), a non-profit group that tracks right-wing networks. Berlet, a paralegal, was a vice-president of the National Lawyers Guild. He has served on the advisory board of the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University, and for over 20 years was on the board of the Defending Dissent Foundation. In 1982, he was a Mencken Awards finalist in the best news story category for "War on Drugs: The Strange Story of Lyndon LaRouche," which was published in ''High Times''. He served on the advisory board of the Campaign to Def ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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