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|birth_name = John Foster Berlet | |||
|known_for = Study of right-wing movements and conspiracy theories | |||
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'''John Foster''' "'''Chip'''" '''Berlet''' ({{IPAc-en|b|ɜr|ˈ|l|eɪ}};<ref><!--at 0:03--></ref> born November 22, 1949) is an American ],<ref>{{cite journal|title=Public Intellectuals, Scholars, Journalists, & Activism: Wearing Different Hats and Juggling Different Ethical Mandates| author=Berlet, C. |journal=International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences|volume=3|issue=1|pages=61–90|date=March 2014|doi=10.4471/rimcis.2014.29|doi-access=free}}</ref> research analyst,<ref>{{cite book |last=Chermak |first=Steven M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p1NGyz43INkC&pg=PA92 |page=92 |title=Searching for a Demon: The Media Construction of the Militia Movement |publisher=UPNE |year=2002 |isbn=9781555535414}}</ref><ref name=HateCrimesReference>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/hatecrimesrefere0002alts |url-access=registration |pages=–89 |last=Altschiller |first=Donald |title=Hate Crimes: A Reference Handbook |publisher=ABC-CLIO |year=2005 |isbn=9781851096244}}</ref> ], scholar, and activist specializing in the study of ].<ref name=HateCrimesReference/><ref name=GeorgeWilcox /> He also studies the spread of ].<ref name=huffpo>{{cite web|last1=Berlet|first1=Chip|title=Holocaust Museum Shooting, Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories, and the Tools of Fear|date=July 11, 2009 |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chip-berlet/holocaust-museum-shooting_b_213979.html|publisher=Huffington Post|access-date=May 14, 2015}}</ref> Since the 1995 ], Berlet has regularly appeared in the media to discuss extremist news stories.<ref name=HateCrimesReference/> He was a senior analyst at ] (PRA), a non-profit group that tracks right-wing networks.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publiceye.org/about.html|title=About PRA |publisher=Publiceye.org}}</ref> | |||
Berlet, a ], was a vice-president of the ]. He has served on the advisory board of the ] at ], and for over 20 years was on the board of the ]. In 1982, he was a Mencken Awards finalist in the best news story category for "War on Drugs: The Strange Story of ]", which was published in '']''. He served on the advisory board of the ]. | |||
'''John Foster "Chip" Berlet''' is a researcher at ] who specializes in tracking and analyzing ] movements. He began his career as a member of ], the ] ] group, and was later involved in the ], which was later exposed as a ] front, and is part of the reason he bacame interested in the semi-] activities of right-wing organizations. He has published articles in publications ranging from '']'' to ]. | |||
== Background == | |||
Like his colleague ], Berlet made much of his reputation by researching ]. King and Berlet co-wrote an attack on LaRouche in 1981 for ''High Times'' magazine, entitled "They Want to Take Your Drugs Away." In later years, the two switched their tactic to charging that LaRouche has an hidden right-wing agenda. Berlet and King met numerous times with the ] ], ], and others, for the purposes of planning a campaign against LaRouche . He has been criticized by some for allegedly accepting money from these known right-wingers. | |||
Berlet attended the ] for three years, where he majored in ] with a minor in ]. A member of the 1960s ],<ref name=GeorgeWilcox>{{Citation | last1 = George | first1 = John | last2 = Wilcox | first2 = Laird M. | title = American Extremists: Militias, Supremacists, Klansmen, Communists & Others | year = 1996 | publisher = Prometheus Books | page = 295 | isbn = 978-1-57392-058-2 }}</ref> he dropped out of the university in 1971 to work as an alternative journalist without completing his degree. In the mid-1970s, he went on to co-edit a series of books on student activism for the ] and ]. He also became an active shop steward with the National Lawyers' Guild. | |||
During the late 1970s, he became the ], bureau chief of '']'' magazine, and in 1979, he helped to organize citizens' hearings on ] surveillance practices. From then until 1982, he worked as a ] investigator at the Better Government Association in Chicago, conducting research for an ] case, involving police ] by the Chicago police (which became known as the "Chicago ]" case).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chicagohistory.org/static_media/pdf/historyfair/chicago_police_depts_red_squad.pdf|title=Bibliography: Chicago Police Department's Red Squad's Involvement In Social Protest|access-date=February 18, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929121933/http://www.chicagohistory.org/static_media/pdf/historyfair/chicago_police_depts_red_squad.pdf|archive-date=September 29, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> He also worked on cases filed against the FBI or police on behalf of the ] (S.A.C.C.), the ], the ], ], the ], and the ] (a ] group). He was a founder member of the ], leaving the organization when he relocated to Boston in 1987.<ref name=GeorgeWilcox /> | |||
During the ] Presidential campaign in the United States, Berlet issued a report entitled "Clouds Blur the Rainbow" which was heavily critical of the ]. In ], ], the psychotherapist who later founded the New Alliance Party, had entered into a brief alliance with Lyndon LaRouche, which lasted less than a year. In 1988, the New Alliance Party managed to place ] on the ballot in all 50 states as a ], ] Presidential candidate. Critics, including Berlet and former New Alliance Party presidential candidate ], charged that the New Alliance Party was in fact a psychotherapy ] that was more a vehicle for Fred Newman's ] movement than it was a left-wing third political party, and which continued to incorporate some of LaRouche's ideas. LaRouche, as well, has attacked Fulani, charging her with being an ] for policies of colonial ] in ]. | |||
Along with journalist ], Berlet has written about ]'s ], calling it anti-Jewish and neo-Nazi, and urging an investigation of alleged illegal activities.<ref name=HateCrimesReference/><ref> By Russ Bellant, Chip Berlet, & Dennis King, Political Research Associates, December 16, 1981</ref> In 1982, Berlet joined ], and in 1985 he founded the Public Eye BBS, the first computer ] aimed at challenging the spread of white-supremacist and ] material through electronic media, and the first to provide an online application kit for requesting information under the U.S. ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publiceye.org/aboutpra/pe_bbshist.html|last=Berlet|first=Chip|title=History of the Public Eye Electronic Forums}}</ref> He was one of the first researchers to have drawn attention to the efforts by white supremacist and antisemitic groups to recruit farmers in the ] in the 1970s and 1980s.<ref>{{cite news |author = Jason Berry |title = Bridging chasms of race and hate |work = St. Petersburg Times (Florida) |publisher = Times Publishing Company |page = 6D |date = August 22, 1993 }}</ref> Berlet was originally on the board of advisers of Public Information Research, founded by Daniel Brandt. Between 1990 and 1992, three members of Brandt's PIR advisory board, including Berlet, resigned over issues concerning another board member, ] and Prouty's book '']''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://issuu.com/bristlekrs/docs/lobster_24 | title=An Incorrect Political Memoir |first=Daniel |last=Brandt |date=December 1992 |work=] |access-date=May 1, 2018}}</ref> Berlet discussed this in a study titled "Right-Woos Left".<ref>Chip Berlet, "," Cambridge, Massachusetts: Political Research Associates, 1991.</ref> | |||
Besides his research into Lyndon LaRouche and Fred Newman, Berlet gained a reputation during the ] as a respectable researcher into government abuses of ], and as a critic of intelligence agencies and the ]. Articles of his appeared in publications such as ], and he issued lists of recommended books on government abuses which included books by ] and ]. However, during the ] ], Berlet suddenly reversed many of his former positions, and began attacking other left-wing critics of ] as wittingly or unwittingly being channels for ] of the ]. In articles which appeared in magazines such as ] and ], Berlet launched attacks on a number of other critics of U.S. intelligence operations who had been active from the late 1980s through the 1991 Gulf War. Chief among those whom Berlet criticized were the ], ], Victor Marchetti, L. Fletcher Prouty, and ]. He further expanded his criticism when the ] film <i>]</i> was released, charging that Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories had their roots in extreme right populism. He published a lengthy report entitled "Right Woos Left" in ] which was a long diatribe against many of the theories and personalities that had gained currency on the left at the time, from the Christic Institute's lawsuit, to JFK assassination conspiracy theories, to the ] theory, to some of the guests which ] had given considerable airtime to during the Gulf War. Berlet saw all these as having their origins within a ] of the extreme right wing, and not being genuinely ] or ]. He further charged that some of the personalities involved had ties to either ] or to Lyndon LaRouche, both of which he characterized as ]. | |||
In 1996, he acted as an adviser on the ] documentary mini-series ''With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America'', which was later published as a book by William Martin.<ref>{{IMDb title|id=0115424|title=With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| title=With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America| url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780553067453| url-access=registration| isbn= 0-553-06749-4| first=William| last= Martin| publisher=Broadway| year=1996}}</ref> Berlet criticized ] and his associates for a close working relationship with Republican textile magnate ], erstwhile major backer of the 1996 presidential campaign of ], and anti-unionization stalwart.<ref>''Right-Wing Populism in America'' by Chip Berlet, pp. 338–344</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wpunj.edu/newpol/issue29/hawkin29.htm |title=A Green Perspective on Ralph Nader And Independent Political Action (from ''New Politics'', vol. 8, no. 1 (new series), whole no. 29, Summer 2000) |first=Howie |last=Hawkins |year=2000 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060715145651/http://www.wpunj.edu/newpol/issue29/hawkin29.htm |archive-date=July 15, 2006 }}</ref> Berlet has provided research assistance to a campaign run by the mother of ], a British student died in disputed circumstances near Wiesbaden, Germany, and to reopen the investigation into his death.<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.publiceye.org/press/releases/2007/3/27/Berlet_LaRouche.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070802051801/http://www.publiceye.org/press/releases/2007/3/27/Berlet_LaRouche.html |archive-date=August 2, 2007|date=March 27, 2007|author=Berlet, Chip|title=Berlet Joins Call for Probe into Death of Student who Attended LaRouche-Group Conference|publisher=Political Research Associates}}</ref> | |||
In recent years he has continued along those same lines, issuing frequent criticisms of people on the left, including ], ], and ], who are willing to work with populists of the right on common issues of concern, such as ] and ] activism. He is active as a researcher with a ]-based group called ], which concentrates on researching the political right, but which also promotes Berlet's criticisms of others on the left. Critics charge that Berlet's criticisms are heavy-handed and often transparently propagandistic, and take on an 'us vs them' or 'good vs evil' tone that allows for no middle ground and constitutes blacklisting. However, he continues to be highly respected in most quarters on the American left, who follow Berlet's pronouncements as to who should be given airtime and print space in progressive media outlets, and who should not. Pacifica Radio for example has generally dropped popular guests and denied them any more airtime following the issuance of an attack on them by Berlet. | |||
== Photojournalism == | |||
Berlet, however, has steadily expanded his definition of what he considers unacceptable. In 1991 he was writing that there is nothing inherently wrong with people on the left working with ]s or ]s on some issues, and he tended to limit his criticisms only to those who willing to work with groups he considered ] or fascist, such as Liberty Lobby and Lyndon LaRouche (an important exception was Craig B. Hulet, whom Berlet continued to attack despite having to admit that Hulet was in no way anti-Semitic or extreme-right and that the only thing wrong with him was he was a libertarian who laced his analysis with conspiracy theories.) Since then, however, he began to attack any collaboration with anybody right of center, such as with the ] Antiwar.com and with conservative ] ], neither of whom could in any way be characterized as anti-Semitic or fascist. | |||
As a ], Berlet's photographs, particularly of ] and neo-Nazi rallies, have been carried on the ] wire, have appeared on book and magazine covers, album covers and posters, and have been published in '']'', '']'', and '']'',<ref>{{Citation | |||
|author = Grant Kester | |||
|title = Net profits: Chip Berlet tracks computer networks of the religious right - interview with Political Research Associates analyst - Special Issue: Fundamentalist Media - Interview | |||
|url = https://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=MwWfMwn2d85tZv2yLGyy1mcwv1pT220SL9Rv1ctbfXb8X0M1Q2Z9!-371328629!616144792?docId=5000318108 | |||
|work = Afterimage | |||
|publisher = Visual Studies Workshop | |||
|date = February–March 1995 | |||
|access-date = April 11, 2007 | |||
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== Reception == | |||
Further, he has developed an ] based on an opposition to what he calls "centrist/extremist theory", and what he calls "populist producerism". Centrist/extremist theory holds that a liberal political center should be the guiding mainstream ideology and that the extreme left and extreme right are both considered the political fringe which should both be equally opposed (v. ]'s ] book "The Vital Center", and also closely associated with ] and ] political writers like ] and ]), and takes a ] approach to examining why people join extremist movements of either the left or the right, while Berlet sees things in simpler terms: left = good, right = evil, the further left the better, mainstream society itself is inherently repressive, and centrist/extremist theory is something to be challenged because it conflicts with this worldview. Berlet's worldview is, therefore, fundamentally anti-liberal; indeed, at the heart of his attacks on conspiracy theorists has been his belief that conspiracism is based in the liberal notion that the economic and political systems in the U.S. are fundamentally sound, and that it is bad people who need to be removed from positions of power, not the system itself that needs to be changed. His opposition to "populist producerism" is likewise based in a ] view of ]es and not a liberal one. Chip Berlet has written, regarding Political Research Associates: ''"PRA was founded on the idea that various forms of oppression are rooted in'' | |||
Berlet's second book, co-authored with Matthew N. Lyons, is ''Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort'', was published by The Guilford Press in 2000. It is a broad historical overview of right-wing populism in the United States. The book received generally favorable reviews. '']'' said it was a "detailed historical examination" that "strikes an excellent balance between narrative and theory." '']'' described it as an excellent account describing the outermost fringes of American conservatism.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Baker |first=Russell |title=Mr. Right |url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2001/may/17/mr-right/ |url-access=subscription |journal=The New York Review of Books |volume=48 |number=8 |date=May 17, 2001 |access-date=July 26, 2008}} Reprinted as Chapter 9 in {{cite book |last=Baker |first=Russell |title=Looking Back |year=2002 |publisher=New York Review Books |isbn=1-59017-008-3 |pages= |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/lookingback00bake/page/139 }}</ref> A review by Jerome Himmelstein in the journal '']'' said that "it offers more than a scholarly treatise on the activities of the ]", that it provides a background to help the reader understand ], and that it "merits close attention from scholars of the political right in America and of social movements generally."<ref>Himmelstein, Jerome L., Review of book ''Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort'', Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Jan. 2002), pp. 76–77, American Sociological Association</ref> | |||
''mainstream society, and that right-wing groups merely fanned exisiting flames."'' | |||
Robert H. Churchill of the private ] criticized Berlet and other authors writing about the right-wing as lacking breadth and depth in their analysis.<ref>Churchill, Robert H. "Beyond the Narrative of 1995 - Recent Examinations of the American Far Right." ''Terrorism and Political Violence'', Vol. 13, No. 4 (Winter 2001), pp. 125–136.</ref> In ''Who Watches the Watchmen?'', ] criticized Berlet and other writers for what Wilcox says is their use of a technique he describes as "Links and Ties," which he says is a form of ].<ref>'''' edited by Jeffrey Kaplan, Heléne Lööw</ref><ref>Wilcox, Laird, "Who Watches the Watchman?" in ''The Cultic Milieu: Oppositional Subcultures in an Age of Globalization'' edited by Jeffrey Kaplan, Heléne Lööw, Rowman Altamira, January 1, 2002, p. 332</ref> ], an associate professor in the Journalism and Media Studies Department at Rutgers University, said that Berlet uses the methods of conspiracy theorists.<ref>Bratich, Jack Z, ''Conspiracy Panics: Political Rationality and Popular Culture'', SUNY Press 2008, p. 100</ref> | |||
Researcher ] has pointed out that Chip Berlet was a founder of the ], which supported the unique ]n brand of ] of ], a brand of communism which even most other leftists and communists would consider ]. | |||
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American political analyst (born 1949)
Chip Berlet | |
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Chip Berlet in Mexico in 2012 | |
Born | John Foster Berlet (1949-11-22) November 22, 1949 (age 75) |
Occupation(s) | Policy analyst, investigative journalist, photojournalist |
Known for | Study of right-wing movements and conspiracy theories |
John Foster "Chip" Berlet (/bɜːrˈleɪ/; born November 22, 1949) is an American investigative journalist, research analyst, photojournalist, scholar, and activist specializing in the study of extreme right-wing movements in the United States. He also studies the spread of conspiracy theories. Since the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, Berlet has regularly appeared in the media to discuss extremist news stories. He was a senior analyst at Political Research Associates (PRA), a non-profit group that tracks right-wing networks.
Berlet, a paralegal, was a vice-president of the National Lawyers Guild. He has served on the advisory board of the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University, and for over 20 years was on the board of the Defending Dissent Foundation. In 1982, he was a Mencken Awards finalist in the best news story category for "War on Drugs: The Strange Story of Lyndon LaRouche", which was published in High Times. He served on the advisory board of the Campaign to Defend the Constitution.
Background
Berlet attended the University of Denver for three years, where he majored in sociology with a minor in journalism. A member of the 1960s student left, he dropped out of the university in 1971 to work as an alternative journalist without completing his degree. In the mid-1970s, he went on to co-edit a series of books on student activism for the National Student Association and National Student Educational Fund. He also became an active shop steward with the National Lawyers' Guild.
During the late 1970s, he became the Washington, D.C., bureau chief of High Times magazine, and in 1979, he helped to organize citizens' hearings on FBI surveillance practices. From then until 1982, he worked as a paralegal investigator at the Better Government Association in Chicago, conducting research for an American Civil Liberties Union case, involving police surveillance by the Chicago police (which became known as the "Chicago Red Squad" case). He also worked on cases filed against the FBI or police on behalf of the Spanish Action Committee of Chicago (S.A.C.C.), the National Lawyers Guild, the American Indian Movement, Socialist Workers Party, the Christic Institute, and the American Friends Service Committee (a Quaker group). He was a founder member of the Chicago Area Friends of Albania, leaving the organization when he relocated to Boston in 1987.
Along with journalist Russ Bellant, Berlet has written about Lyndon LaRouche's National Caucus of Labor Committees, calling it anti-Jewish and neo-Nazi, and urging an investigation of alleged illegal activities. In 1982, Berlet joined Political Research Associates, and in 1985 he founded the Public Eye BBS, the first computer bulletin board aimed at challenging the spread of white-supremacist and neo-Nazi material through electronic media, and the first to provide an online application kit for requesting information under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act. He was one of the first researchers to have drawn attention to the efforts by white supremacist and antisemitic groups to recruit farmers in the Midwestern United States in the 1970s and 1980s. Berlet was originally on the board of advisers of Public Information Research, founded by Daniel Brandt. Between 1990 and 1992, three members of Brandt's PIR advisory board, including Berlet, resigned over issues concerning another board member, L. Fletcher Prouty and Prouty's book The Secret Team. Berlet discussed this in a study titled "Right-Woos Left".
In 1996, he acted as an adviser on the Public Broadcasting Service documentary mini-series With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America, which was later published as a book by William Martin. Berlet criticized Ralph Nader and his associates for a close working relationship with Republican textile magnate Roger Milliken, erstwhile major backer of the 1996 presidential campaign of Pat Buchanan, and anti-unionization stalwart. Berlet has provided research assistance to a campaign run by the mother of Jeremiah Duggan, a British student died in disputed circumstances near Wiesbaden, Germany, and to reopen the investigation into his death.
Photojournalism
As a photojournalist, Berlet's photographs, particularly of Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi rallies, have been carried on the Associated Press wire, have appeared on book and magazine covers, album covers and posters, and have been published in The Denver Post, The Washington Star, and The Chronicle of Higher Education,
Reception
Berlet's second book, co-authored with Matthew N. Lyons, is Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort, was published by The Guilford Press in 2000. It is a broad historical overview of right-wing populism in the United States. The book received generally favorable reviews. Library Journal said it was a "detailed historical examination" that "strikes an excellent balance between narrative and theory." The New York Review of Books described it as an excellent account describing the outermost fringes of American conservatism. A review by Jerome Himmelstein in the journal Contemporary Sociology said that "it offers more than a scholarly treatise on the activities of the Third Reich", that it provides a background to help the reader understand the Holocaust, and that it "merits close attention from scholars of the political right in America and of social movements generally."
Robert H. Churchill of the private University of Hartford criticized Berlet and other authors writing about the right-wing as lacking breadth and depth in their analysis. In Who Watches the Watchmen?, Laird Wilcox criticized Berlet and other writers for what Wilcox says is their use of a technique he describes as "Links and Ties," which he says is a form of guilt by association. Jack Z. Bratich, an associate professor in the Journalism and Media Studies Department at Rutgers University, said that Berlet uses the methods of conspiracy theorists.
Publications
See also
References
- "Chip Berlet, Tea Parties, White Rage & Right-Wing Populism Recorded on November 30th, 2010"
- Berlet, C. (March 2014). "Public Intellectuals, Scholars, Journalists, & Activism: Wearing Different Hats and Juggling Different Ethical Mandates". International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences. 3 (1): 61–90. doi:10.4471/rimcis.2014.29.
- Chermak, Steven M. (2002). Searching for a Demon: The Media Construction of the Militia Movement. UPNE. p. 92. ISBN 9781555535414.
- ^ Altschiller, Donald (2005). Hate Crimes: A Reference Handbook. ABC-CLIO. pp. 88–89. ISBN 9781851096244.
- ^ George, John; Wilcox, Laird M. (1996), American Extremists: Militias, Supremacists, Klansmen, Communists & Others, Prometheus Books, p. 295, ISBN 978-1-57392-058-2
- Berlet, Chip (July 11, 2009). "Holocaust Museum Shooting, Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories, and the Tools of Fear". Huffington Post. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
- "About PRA". Publiceye.org.
- "Bibliography: Chicago Police Department's Red Squad's Involvement In Social Protest" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 29, 2007. Retrieved February 18, 2007.
- LaRouche Cult Continues to Grow By Russ Bellant, Chip Berlet, & Dennis King, Political Research Associates, December 16, 1981
- Berlet, Chip. "History of the Public Eye Electronic Forums".
- Jason Berry (August 22, 1993). "Bridging chasms of race and hate". St. Petersburg Times (Florida). Times Publishing Company. p. 6D.
- Brandt, Daniel (December 1992). "An Incorrect Political Memoir". NameBase. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
- Chip Berlet, "Right Woos Left: Populist Party, LaRouchite, and Other Neo-fascist Overtures To Progressives, And Why They Must Be Rejected," Cambridge, Massachusetts: Political Research Associates, 1991.
- With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America at IMDb
- Martin, William (1996). With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America. Broadway. ISBN 0-553-06749-4.
- Right-Wing Populism in America by Chip Berlet, pp. 338–344
- Hawkins, Howie (2000). "A Green Perspective on Ralph Nader And Independent Political Action (from New Politics, vol. 8, no. 1 (new series), whole no. 29, Summer 2000)". Archived from the original on July 15, 2006.
- Berlet, Chip (March 27, 2007). "Berlet Joins Call for Probe into Death of Student who Attended LaRouche-Group Conference" (Press release). Political Research Associates. Archived from the original on August 2, 2007.
- Grant Kester (February–March 1995), "Net profits: Chip Berlet tracks computer networks of the religious right - interview with Political Research Associates analyst - Special Issue: Fundamentalist Media - Interview", Afterimage, Visual Studies Workshop, retrieved April 11, 2007
- Baker, Russell (May 17, 2001). "Mr. Right". The New York Review of Books. 48 (8). Retrieved July 26, 2008. Reprinted as Chapter 9 in Baker, Russell (2002). Looking Back. New York Review Books. pp. 139–157. ISBN 1-59017-008-3.
- Himmelstein, Jerome L., Review of book Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort, Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Jan. 2002), pp. 76–77, American Sociological Association
- Churchill, Robert H. "Beyond the Narrative of 1995 - Recent Examinations of the American Far Right." Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Winter 2001), pp. 125–136.
- The Cultic Milieu: Oppositional Subcultures in an Age of Globalization edited by Jeffrey Kaplan, Heléne Lööw
- Wilcox, Laird, "Who Watches the Watchman?" in The Cultic Milieu: Oppositional Subcultures in an Age of Globalization edited by Jeffrey Kaplan, Heléne Lööw, Rowman Altamira, January 1, 2002, p. 332
- Bratich, Jack Z, Conspiracy Panics: Political Rationality and Popular Culture, SUNY Press 2008, p. 100
External links
- Official website
- Biography of Berlet at Center for Millennial Studies.
- Biography of Berlet at Political Research Associates.
- Chip Berlet at HathiTrust.
- Chip Berlet at IMDb.
- Chip Berlet at Internet Archive.
- Chip Berlet at Open Library.
- Chip Berlet at WorldCat.
- "Race, Class and Gender: Justice in the Intersections", brief description of Chip Berlet's work
- Chip Berlet on "The Becking of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords" – video report by Democracy Now!