A Book Talk with Elle Reeve

For many Americans, the events of January 6, 2021, were an unadulterated glimpse into America’s seedy underbelly of far-right movements–a world that award-winning journalist Elle Reeve understood all too well. Having spent the better part of a decade covering the American far-right and its leaders, Reeve took to writing Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics–a detailed look at how the contemporary American far-right metastasized from a fringe movement on obscure internet forums to the mainstream. Black Pill is available for purchase wherever books are sold.

On Thursday, August 15, 2024, the Program on Extremism Research Fellow Luke Baumgartner had a conversation with Elle Reeve to learn about her journey and what it took to write Black Pill.