In 2019, two young men, one in Christchurch, New Zealand, and one in El Paso, Texas, murdered dozens of people in two astonishing acts of political violence. The first mass shooting, in Christchurch, helped inspire the second, which happened five months later; both men shared strong commitments to the same set of ideas and presented their suicidal atrocities as political theater, highly visible acts of terrorism intended to advance their ideology. That ideology can be found in the manifestos they published before undertaking their attacks, which circulated widely and are still available on the internet, but the ideology did not Read more