Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Preview
  • Culture Warlords

  • My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
  • By: Talia Lavin
  • Narrated by: Talia Lavin
  • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (70 ratings)

£0.00 for first 30 days

Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Culture Warlords

By: Talia Lavin
Narrated by: Talia Lavin
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Summary

Talia Lavin is every fascist's worst nightmare: a loud and unapologetic young Jewish woman, with the online investigative know-how to expose the tactics and ideologies of online hatemongers. Outspoken and uncompromising, Lavin's debut uncovers the hidden corners of the web where extremists hang out, from white nationalists and incels to national socialists and Proud Boys.

In stories crammed with catfishing and gatecrashing, combined with extensive, gut-wrenching research, Lavin goes undercover as a blonde Nazi babe and a forlorn incel to infiltrate extremist communities online, including a whites-only dating site. She also discovers the network of disturbingly young extremists, including a white-supremacist YouTube channel run by a 14-year-old girl with nearly one million followers. Ultimately, she turns the lens of anti-Semitism, racism and white power back on itself in an attempt to dismantle and quash the online hate movement's schisms, recruiting tactics and the threat it represents to politics and beyond.

Shocking, provocative and humorous in equal measure, and with a take-no-prisoners attitude, Culture Warlords explores some of the vilest subcultures on the internet and how they're doing their best to infiltrate the mainstream. And then she shows us how we can fight back.

©2020 Talia Lavin (P)2020 Octopus Publishing Group
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

Listeners also enjoyed...

Conspirituality cover art
Jewish Space Lasers cover art
Cultish cover art
QAnon and On cover art
Political Masculinity cover art
The Undertow cover art
Alt-America cover art
Bring the War Home cover art
How Fascism Works cover art
Sandy Hook cover art
Things Fell Apart cover art
Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate cover art
Kill All Normies cover art
The Madness of Crowds cover art
They Knew cover art
Monster of Their Own Making cover art

Critic reviews

"Lavin writes like her hands are on fire, forcing us to take a hard look at our ugliest truths." (Pamela Collof, The New York Times Magazine and ProPublica)

"Culture Warlords is a necessary and urgent read that could not have come at a much better time. Thoroughly researched and engaging, this debut demonstrates the work of a fearless reporter." (Morgan Jerkins, New York Times best-selling author of This Will Be My Undoing)

What listeners say about Culture Warlords

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    50
  • 4 Stars
    15
  • 3 Stars
    5
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    48
  • 4 Stars
    17
  • 3 Stars
    2
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    47
  • 4 Stars
    12
  • 3 Stars
    6
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    1

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Prescient warnings

I've loved Talia's work for a while and her books are alarming journals warning of something truly nasty rising up while trying to remain out of sight. To add to the quality of her work her reading is spot on, both clear and engaging.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Fascinating, educational, infuriating and brilliant!

History is our best teacher and Culture Warlords took me on a journey to explore the past in order to help understand the present.

Full of passion and genuine feeling, this book provides a window into the darker side of society and the minds of its’ inhabitants.

The words are impactful yet poetic and Lavin’s reading is pacy and engaging. I loved it and will return to chapters again and again to aid with my own learning and reasoning.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Excellent content, poor audiobook

Talia Lavin is doing great work and there was a lot of fascinating ground covered here, though there was a fair bit of repetition of names and groups throughout (I got the impression it was to reinforce certain names but it could come across as underestimating the listener's ability to concentrate). The production of the audiobook itself was poor in places, with the mixing seemingly off and levels changing mid sentence on more than occasion, going from softly spoken to forceful in ways that didn't make much sense in terms of emphasis, it just seemed poorly mixed. Almost more importantly though, the content was great and Talia Lavin is a valuable asset in the battle to understand the far right and what makes them tick.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Amazing!

Thoroughly researched, cleverly presented, brave and soul bearing, I was hooked from the first. I've been vegetarian for years, suddenly I'm craving a shredded beef sandwich which is upsetting for multiple reasons 😁 Bravo Talia! A truly wonderful, brilliant book 💕

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Satisfying, will written and earnestly performed

An excellent and timely book about the pathetic morasse of right wing extremism. From mass shooters to pagan larpers, this book gives an intimate insight into the kinds of people who fall into the ideologies of hate, without forgetting their essential humanity nor condoning them.

The book moves at a brisk pace and is stylishly written. The performance is heartfelt and eloquent. Worth a listen for anyone interested in people's decent into the white supremacist death cult, and the ways it's being combatted.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

An important book passionately narrated

This is an important work detailing the re-emergence of the far-right in the West, government inaction in the face of it and various NGOs moves taken to counter it.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Great insight into the online right-wing world.

I loved this book. Well read by Talia, with honest, fact-based reporting, and personal experience.
Recommended.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!