The Weird White Supremacist World of Stephen Miller

Why he’s lasted so long in the White House.

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Episode Notes

Virginia Heffernan talks to investigative journalist Jean Guerrero, author of Hatemonger, about Stephen Miller’s childhood and education, nurturing fringe white supremacist ideals, his relationship with anti-immigration activist David Horowitz, and how he’s managed to survive so long and hold his power in Trump’s ever-changing administrative lineup.

Podcast production by Melissa Kaplan. Engineering help from Richard Stanislaw.

About the Show

A podcast from Slate chronicling Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency and his current administration. Journalists Virginia Heffernan and León Krauze talk to reporters, historians, psychiatrists, and other experts to help explain who this man is and why this is happening, right now, in the United States of America.

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Virginia Heffernan is the host of Trumpcast, a contributing editor at Wired, and a columnist at the Los Angeles Times. She’s the author of Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art.

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