About Matthew N. Lyons

Matthew N. Lyons is an independent scholar and freelance writer who studies reactionary and supremacist movements. He co-authored Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort with Chip Berlet.

Review: The Populist Explosion

By Matthew N. Lyons, on May 25, 2017

Click here for a PDF version of this article This article appears in the Spring 2017 edition of The Public Eye magazine. Review of John B. Judis, The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics (New Read More

Ctrl-Alt-Delete: The origins and ideology of the Alternative Right

By Matthew N. Lyons, on January 20, 2017

An antifascist report on the far right movement that embraced Donald Trump. Click the icon to order Ctrl-Alt-Delete. This report is excerpted from Matthew N. Lyons’s forthcoming book, Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire, Read More

Populism as Core Element of Fascism

By Matthew N. Lyons, on December 21, 2016

Portions of this essay first appeared on the PRA website in a section called “Too Close for Comfort” as preliminary research studies that were later incorporated into the book Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort by Chip Berlet Read More

What is Fascism?

By Matthew N. Lyons, on December 12, 2016

Originally published in 1997. Author’s Note: I am skeptical of efforts to produce a “definition” of fascism. As a dynamic historical current, fascism has taken many different forms, and has evolved dramatically in some ways. To understand what fascism has Read More

Homeland Security: Low-Intensity Conflict Targets Non-Citizens

By Matthew N. Lyons, on April 1, 2003

Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, the so-called war on terror has provided the U.S. government with a rationale for dramatically increasing state repression. This repression, linked with an upsurge of nationalism and nativist scapegoating, affects everyone in the Read More

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