The Sunday Interview: Strange People on the Hill: When White Nationalists Buy a Castle

Podcast: Premium Ad-Free: Straight White American Jesus · Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

Opublikowano: 2026-09-20

In this Sunday interview, Annika Brockschmidt talks with journalist and podcaster Michael Edison Hayden about his new book, Strange People on the Hill, which follows what happened when Peter and Lydia Brimelow, the couple behind the white nationalist site VDARE, bought a castle overlooking the tiny tourist town of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. Hayden explains who the Brimelows are and how VDARE helped push the "great replacement" narrative into mainstream American politics. He also explains why he made the town, not the Brimelows, the center of the book, and how the arrival of VDARE and the national tensions of 2020...