Jeremy Lee Quinn has spent more than two decades in television news, working in the New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Hawaii markets, both on air and behind the camera. In 2020, as an independent journalist, Quinn began investigating riot tactics and cultural polarization across the U.S. Culture of Confusion is the culmination of six years of immersive research. During those six years, Quinn wrote for Los Angeles Magazine, Newsweek Opinion, and Spiked UK. A 2024 Edward R. Murrow Award winner for his coverage of the Lahaina fire, he was also nominated for a regional Emmy for his reporting on the aftermath of the Maui wildfires. Quinn was on the ground to document the Palisades fire in 2025. In 2026, a news piece he shot in the aftermath of the Altadena fire earned multiple Golden Mike Awards for NBC Los Angeles.

“Fearless, meticulous, and unfashionably fair. Jeremy Lee Quinn occupies the increasingly lonely ground where evidence matters more than allegiance. In a moment when much of journalism has retreated into the comfort of the like-minded, Quinn did the harder thing: went out, looked closely at political violence, and reported what was actually there. This book is the record of that work—and of the professional cost of doing it.” —NADINE STROSSEN | Past president of the American Civil Liberties Union, Senior Fellow at FIRE, and coauthor of The War on Words“Grounded in gritty, street-level journalism, Jeremy Lee Quinn fearlessly scrutinizes extremist violence across the entire political spectrum. By resisting rigid purity politics and defending the uncomfortable necessity of free speech, this book embodies the true definition of modern intellectual heresy.” —DR. NAFEES ALAM | Senior Director of Policy and Research at the Institute for Liberal Values“This kind of journalism—patient, dangerous, unaligned, and deeply human—has largely been pushed aside in favor of ideology and narrative safety. Quinn writes like a surgeon with a scalpel, intent on understanding the story from the inside out.” —ADAM WEBER | Media Technology Developer“Culture of Confusion rips through media bias and the ideological rigidity of the right and left.” —MICHAEL CAPUTO | Hawaii Fire Captain“Do not talk to Jeremy Lee Quinn.” —BLACK CAT WORKER’S COLLECTIVE | Minneapolis Anarchist Organization"Culture of Confusion is an absorbing, often shocking, behind-the-scenes look at both far-left and far-right activism of the early 2020s. Jeremy Lee Quinn’s book is drawn from his remarkable on-the-ground reporting, encompassing Black Lives Matter riots, violent clashes between Antifa and the Proud Boys, and the storming of the U.S. Capitol. Culture of Confusion is more than just a cataloging of the chaos of those bizarre years. It’s also a meditation on the dangerous fracturing of America's shared reality." —MARGARET CRABLE | Associate Editor at the University of Southern California and Co-Chair of the Heterodox Academy at USC“A fascinating read. Jeremy Lee Quinn delves into one of the strangest times in U.S. history.” —CLAYTON HURD | Kauai Island