This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Michael Edison Hayden [Bluesky]. Michael is a journalist, podcaster and the author of Strange People on the Hill: How Extremism Tore Apart a Small American Town (Hachette, 2026), ‘A gripping narrative that reveals what happens to a small American town when an influential white nationalist group relocates its headquarters there, vividly illustrating how radical changes in American politics impact our psyches and divide our communities’.
See also : ‘We feel this incredible tension at all times’: what happened to small-town USA when extremists moved in, J Oliver Conroy, The Guardian, April 12, 2026 /// Hayek’s Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right, Quinn Slobodian, Allen Lane, 2025 (especially Chapter Three on ‘Ethno-Economy’).
4.30pm, April 16, 2026 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus, podcats.
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