How the Bronze Age Pervert Became a Far Right Icon

About this episode

The episode explores the rise of the far-right thinker known as Bronze Age Pervert and his influence on social media and culture.

“Bronze Age Pervert” is the moniker of an influential far-right thinker. He has hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter. His book is a top-seller on Amazon, and was reviewed by a former Trump administration official. Journalist Graeme Wood knew him before all that, back when he was just a college student in tevas. You can read Graeme Wood’s Atlantic story “How Bronze Age Pervert Charmed the Far Right” here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/09/bronze-age-pervert-costin-alamariu/674762/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Host: Joel Stein

Guest: Graeme Wood

Topics covered

• far-right ideology
• influential thinkers
• social media
• cultural commentary
• political influence

Keywords

• Bronze Age Pervert
• Graeme Wood
• far-right
• Twitter
• influential thinkers
• political commentary
• Amazon bestseller

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Trump administration, Atlantic

Products: book

Books & works: How Bronze Age Pervert Charmed the Far Right

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