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Jan 07, 20266 min read

Philosophy

Social Sciences

Nerd culture

Incel culture and radicalization

  • Kowert, Martel & Swann (2022) — Not just a game: Identity fusion and extremism in gaming cultures
  • “The Risks of Identity Fusion in Toxic Gamer Cultures” (DeGrove, Courtois & Van Looy, 2023)
  • Russo, Ribeiro & West (2023/24) — Stranger Danger! Cross‑Community Interactions with Fringe Users Increase the Growth of Fringe Communities on Reddit
  • Lahnala, Varadarajan, Flek, Schwartz & Boyd (2025) — Unifying the Extremes: Developing a Unified Model for Detecting and Predicting Extremist Traits and Radicalization
  • Moskalenko, González, Kates & Morton (2022) — Incel Ideology, Radicalization and Mental Health
  • De Vettor, Lo Buglio, Barsanti, Ciocca, Gennaro, Goksal, Lingiardi & Boldrini (2025) — Involuntary Celibacy (Incel) Identity: A Thematic Analysis of an Online Community’s Beliefs and Emotional Experiences
  • ICCT Report — Fighting Extremism in Gaming Platforms: Design Principles for P/CVE
  • Canedo, Bonifácio, Okimoto, Serebrenik & Pinto (2020)

Open-Source culture

  • “Do I Belong? Modeling Sense of Virtual Community Among Linux Kernel Contributors” Trinkenreich, Stol, Sarma, et al. (2023)
  • Network Science & Homophily in the Linux Kernel Teixeira, Leppänen & Hyrynsalmi (2021)
  • Hui Zhao’s master’s thesis “A Qualitative Study of the Linux Open Source Community” (1999)
  • Gabriella Coleman’s Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking

Tabletop RPGs / D&D / TTRPG Culture

  • Gary Alan Fine, Shared Fantasy: Role Playing Games as Social Worlds (1983)
  • Joseph P. Laycock, Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds (2015)
  • A 2024 academic article (in Next Experience Journal)

Linguistics

History

United States

Intelligence community

  • Jack M. Balkin, “The Constitution in the National Surveillance State” | Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 93, No. 1 (2008).
  • Jack M. Balkin & Sanford Levinson, “The Processes of Constitutional Change: From Partisan Entrenchment to the National Surveillance State” | Fordham Law Review, Vol. 75 (2006).
  • Athan G. Theoharis, Abuse of Power: How Cold War Surveillance and Secrecy Policy Shaped the Response to 9/11 | Temple University Press, 2011.
  • Margaret Hu, “From the National Surveillance State to the Cybersurveillance State” | Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 13 (2017).
  • Zachary K. Goldman & Samuel J. Rascoff (eds.), Global Intelligence Oversight: Governing Security in the Twenty-First Century | Oxford University Press, 2016.
  • Orin S. Kerr, “The National Surveillance State: A Response to Balkin” | Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 93 (2009).
  • Michael J. Glennon, National Security and Double Government | Oxford University Press, 2014.
  • Morton H. Halperin, Jerry J. Berman, Robert L. Borosage & Christine M. Marwick, The Lawless State: The Crimes of the U.S. Intelligence Agencies (1976)
  • James Bamford, A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America’s Intelligence Agencies | Doubleday, 2004.
  • National Research Council, “Privacy, Law Enforcement, and National Security” in Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age (2007) | Covers U.S. intelligence surveillance, legal frameworks (like FISA), and constitutional balances.
  • ACLU, “NSA Surveillance” (resource page / legal analysis)
  • Human Rights Watch, “With Liberty to Monitor All: How Large‑Scale U.S. Surveillance Is Harming Journalism, Law, and American Democracy” (2014)

Evil actions

Slavery and Race

  • Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (1997)
  • The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (2014)
  • Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson (2001)
  • The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (2008)
  • The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics (2007)

Indigenous Peoples, “Manifest Destiny”, and Colonialism

  • An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014)
  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970)
  • A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the Present (1997)
  • Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America (2014)

Jim Crow, Civil Rights, and Political Repression

  • From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality (2004)
  • The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (2017)
  • COINTELPRO: The FBI’s Secret War on Political Freedom (1991)

U.S. Imperialism, Colonization, and Regime Change

  • Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II (2014, 5th edition)
  • Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq (2006)
  • The CIA: An Imperial History (2008)
  • The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic (2004)

Surveillance, War on Terror, and Modern State Power

  • The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals (2008)
  • A Culture of Secrecy: The Government Versus the People’s Right to Know (2006)
  • The Watchers: The Rise of America’s Surveillance State (2010)

Founding

WWI, WWII, and Hitler

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X75Eq22EyEFMJ0I6aDBxqpwgOqQTFbthkPeocSJGBbI/edit

Israel-Palestine

Computer Science

Politics

Barack Obama

  • Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield (2013)
  • Julian E. Zelizer (ed.) / assorted scholarly essays
  • S. S. Wadhia, “DACA, DREAMers, and the Obama Administration” (law review / scholarly essays)
  • Drones & targeted killing, Mark Mazzetti / academic responses

Donald Trump

  • Cordero, “The Law Against Family Separation”
  • Migration Policy Institute & academic studies on the travel bans and asylum restrictions
  • Law review articles analyzing the Trump transgender military ban & Title VII litigation
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General

January 6th

Second Term

Joe Biden

  • Oviedo (2025), “Crossing Lines: Expiration of Title 42 and the Injury…” (peer-reviewed article, 2025)
  • R. Portugal, “How Biden’s ‘Root Causes Initiative’ Can Bypass the Title 42…” (student scholarship / legal commentary, 2023)
  • A. S. Leonard, “The Biden Administration’s First Hundred Days: An LGBTQ Review” (2021, law review/academic piece)
  • Public-health & education scholarship (e.g., Russell et al., 2021)

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