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In Making Monsters, David Livingstone Smith offers a poignant meditation on the philosophical and psychological roots of dehumanization. Drawing on harrowing accounts of lynchings, Smith establishes what dehumanization is and what it isn't. When we dehumanize our enemy, we hold two incongruous beliefs at the same time: We believe our enemy is at once subhuman and fully human.

How do you get into the mind of the devil, when that devil is trying to get into yours?Alongside Crime+Investigation’s TV show Making a Monster, the partner podcast series Making a Monster: The Tapes has exclusive access to extra interview recordings from the forensic psychiatrists, psychologists and pathologists featured within the eight-part TV broadcast.Hosted by British television presenter Cherry Healey (BBC’s Inside the Factory), Making a Monster: The Tapes will provide insight into the field of investigating the psyches of some of the most notorious serial killers of all time,...

Recounting his experiences among far-right terrorists and extremists, Jack Buckby shows how conservatives and liberals are both wrong about the far right.