crowds

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• 2/21/2021
  

  January 6, 2021: A Day of Populist Transgression

  by Robert A. Schneider

  The Capitol riot included a small core of actors bent on destruction, with many more along for the ride reveling in a moment of transgression. In this way, it was a microcosm of the Trumpian movement that, now unleashed, will be difficult to contain.

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• 8/9/2020
  

  Let's Return Historical Attention to the Crowd

  by Peter N. Stearns

  Historians have much to add to the social science theory on crowds and can help advance understanding past simplistic and mechanistic understandings of today's public unrest.