Discourse: Research on Ideology, Hate, and Tolerance
An Annual Academic Journal
Published by the Antisemitism Research Initiative (ARI)
Program on Extremism, The George Washington University
A call for papers for the inaugural issues will be published soon.
Journal Title
Discourse: Research on Ideology, Hate, and Tolerance
Publisher
Antisemitism Research Initiative (ARI)
Institution
Program on Extremism, The George Washington University
Status
Provisional ISSN Assigned
Format
Online
ISSN
3070-6912
Editors
About the Journal
Discourse: Research on Ideology, Hate, and Tolerance is an annual, open-access academic journal dedicated to the systematic study of how ideologies of hatred and practices of tolerance are articulated, transmitted, contested, and institutionalized through discourse across global contexts.
Founded and published by the Antisemitism Research Initiative (ARI) at the Program on Extremism at The George Washington University, Discourse provides a rigorous scholarly platform for interdisciplinary research on the language, narratives, and communicative practices that shape political conflict, social exclusion, and coexistence in contemporary and historical societies.
While the journal gives sustained attention to antisemitism as a paradigmatic and historically consequential form of hatred, it deliberately situates antisemitism within a broader comparative and analytical framework. This framework encompasses other forms of ideological hostility—including racism, religious intolerance, ethnonationalism, conspiracy thinking, and extremist discourse—as well as the discursive conditions under which tolerance, pluralism, and civic restraint are articulated and defended.
Rather than treating hate and tolerance as purely normative categories, the journal approaches them as objects of empirical and theoretical inquiry. It examines how they are constructed in texts, legitimized by institutions, circulated through media, and reshaped by political, religious, and technological change.