How does a far-right non-profit organization manage to upend life in a small West Virginia town? Investigative journalist and author Michael Edison Hayden tells the story of VDARE—a white nationalist group led by Peter Brimelow that relocated to Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, to spread racist propaganda from behind the walls of their castle.

Join the Program on Extremism on Thursday, April 16, 2026, for an in-person conversation with the author of Strange People on the Hill: How Extremism Tore Apart a Small American Town, Michael Edison Hayden. This event is moderated by Research Fellow Luke Baumgartner.