Spanish Version Radicalization is the root of all evil, particularly of the jihadist kind. Or so the mainstream narrative goes, particularly after the publication of a 2007 New York Police Department report called Radicalization in the West. This idea, which has come to be pervasive in today's society, is wrong at both the conceptual and the empirical level. Not only that: it is also profoundly misleading, and regressively so. At the conceptual level, every serious inqu