DHS Awarded $1.5M to American University Lab Aiming to ‘Psychologically Inoculate’ Kindergarteners

SUMMARY The Polarization and Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL) is a “counter-extremism” research institute housed at American University, founded by Professors Cynthia Miller-Idriss and Brian Hughes In its own words, PERIL was conceived as a political indoctrination project; to “develop an empirically-tested, nationally-scalable intervention to prevent youth from radicalizing to white supremacist extremism” According…