Benjamin Teitelbaum

Benjamin Raphael Teitelbaum (born January 27, 1983) is an American ethnographer and political commentator. An associate professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Colorado, Boulder and former Head of Nordic Studies at the same institution, he is best known for his ethnographic research into far-right groups in Scandinavia and commentary on immigration, and is frequently cited as an expert in Scandinavian and American media.

His writing has appeared in outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, UnHerd, The Nation, and The Atlantic, and he was a recurring guest on The Glenn Beck Program and The Mehdi Hasan Show.

Books Teitelbaum is the author of Lions of the North: Sounds of the New Nordic Radical Nationalism (2017), an ethnographic study of radical nationalists in Scandinavia, as well as War for Eternity: The Return of Traditionalism and the Rise of the Populist Right (2020), which explores the role of Traditionalism in the thinking of figures like Steve Bannon, Olavo de Carvalho, Jason Jorjani, Gabor Vona and Aleksandr Dugin.