The Secret Code of the Proud Boys

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Virginia Heffernan talks to historian Nicole Hemmer about the Proud Boys—breaking down their hazing and hypermasculinity, initiation, conservative cults, and how Donald Trump incites them.

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

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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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