White Nationalism Comes to Town

White Nationalism Comes to Town

When investigative journalist Michael Edison Hayden learned that the influential White nationalist group VDARE had purchased a 19th-century sandstone castle in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia in 2020, he headed to the 700-person town from his home in New York state. At the time, Hayden was a senior investigative reporter and spokesperson at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), where his job was to track, monitor, and raise awareness about the…