Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Daily Beast, The Independent Film Channel, The Nation, The Huffington Post, Salon.com and Al Jazeera English. Blumenthal studied History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently a writing fellow for the Nation Institute.

His bestselling book Republican Gomorrah. Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party (2009) is inspired by the work of psychologist Erich Fromm, who asserted that the fear of freedom propels anxiety-ridden people into authoritarian settings and conformism. In his book, Blumenthal explains how a culture of personal crisis has defined the radical right in the United States, transforming the nature of the Republican Party.
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