Literary Hub

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The coronavirus pandemic is dramatically disrupting not only our daily lives but society itself. This show features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the deeper economic, political, and technological consequenc

Manhattan Institute

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In France, curiously enough, anti-clericalism seems to have long outlived its enemy, clericalism. The Catholic Church has not been a political force, even a social one, for a long time. In the mouths of the enlightened, the appellation catho (Catholi

The Atlantic

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Fascism is in the running to be Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year. But it’s not the right word for the current moment.

Foreign Policy Magazine

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“EVERY AGE HAS ITS OWN FASCISM,” the Italian writer Primo Levi warned in a 1974 essay. Responding to the Vietnam War and the rise of military juntas in Chile and Greece, Levi worried that the dehumanization and domination of fascist politics had surv

Newsweek

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In the wake of Donald Trump’s election, a troubling word re-emerged in the American political lexicon: fascism. The left says the president mimics strongmen by attacking the media and targeting immigrants. The right claims liberals suppress dissenti

The Independent

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President Trump and his supporters have embraced fascist politics, and his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and his positive diagnosis are a “classic” example of how, according a Yale philosophy professor and fascism expert.  “In this kind of pol

All About History

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Drafted into the Italian army, socialist journalist Benito Mussolini supports the war, breaking with socialist politics to form the Partito Fascista Rivoluzionario (PFR). Mussolini founds the Fasci di Combattimento, or Fascist Party. The Manifesto of

NPR

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Yale professor Jason Stanley wrote the book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them. He talked with NPR about defining fascism and how conspiracy theories play a part.

Literary Hub

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A recent television program dealt with how Italian children and young adults were educated under the Fascist regime of the 1920s and 30s. One of the questions raised was whether the totalitarian education of a generation had a profound effect in shap

The Atlantic

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The modern world provides a "petri dish" for fascism, the former secretary of state argues.

All About History

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Q. WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER TO BE THE MEANING OF THE TERM FASCIST? A. The great historian of fascism Roger Griffin has noted, about the “bewilderingly wide range of ideal types of their essential definitional traits [that have] accumulated over time”, th

The Atlantic

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It was canceled 80 years ago due to anti-Semitic laws. Now, it’s finally going mainstream—but so is the fascist ideology that blocked it in the first place.

Literary Hub

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Francesco Pacifico’s novel Class was published by Melville House last month. As its acquiring editor and quasi-sort of-co-translator (more on that in a moment), I can’t claim to be objective about the novel’s virtues, so I’ll just quote the New York

Literary Hub

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The coronavirus pandemic is dramatically disrupting not only our daily lives but society itself. This show features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the deeper economic, political, and technological consequenc

The Atlantic

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Many Americans who brand Trump and his allies as fascists are paying too little attention to abuses in Hong Kong and cultural genocide in Xinjiang.

Literary Hub

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Picture it: three mild-mannered academics are having dinner together in London. They’re literary scholars who have deeply bonded over a shared love for an obscure author. The conversation turns to collegial romance, and the two men begin to press the

History of War

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Members of the Fascio di Londra, the London Fascist Organisation, give the Fascist salute at the Cenotaph in Whitehall. After Mussolini’s March on Rome in 1922, Fascist movements gained attention around the word, and right-wing groups adopted the sal

The Atlantic

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A professor who shares a name with an alt-right leader became witness to his radicalization, and to the evolution of a movement.

BBC History Magazine

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Allen Lane, 576 pages, £30 The popular picture of Italian conduct in the Second World War is that of the decent Italian soldier: amorous, cultured, far from bellicose and eager to see the end of the conflict. This is the image presented in Private An

The Atlantic

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Each fall semester, America’s long-running debate about campus politics begins again. And I’ll take part this year as I have in years past, especially when the debate concerns matters of free speech. Critics say my energies are misplaced. There is no

The Independent

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At the outset of Donald Trump’s presidency, the US Christian historian David Montaigne asked whether his election might actually be a sign from God, the human embodiment of the “last trump” presaging the onset of the Apocalypse. Unless we are one of

Literary Hub

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Picture it: three mild-mannered academics are having dinner together in London. They’re literary scholars who have deeply bonded over a shared love for an obscure author. The conversation turns to collegial romance, and the two men begin to press the

NPR

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By standing strong against the Nazis, America became a beacon of hope to some of the world's greatest scientists — whose positive effects on American science we still feel today, says Adam Frank.

The Guardian

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The novelist tells how he dredged up the ghost of his own great uncle, a fascist ‘martyr’, to throw light on Spain’s struggles today

The Atlantic

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The anti-Semitic attacks on the Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre have spurred a national debate about intolerance.

NPR

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Salvini, Italy's deputy prime minister, leader of a far-right party and Europe's rising populist star, counts President Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon as one of his biggest fans.

Literary Hub

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In this episode of Keen On, Andrew talks to Catherine Fieschi, the founder and executive director of Counterpoint, a London-based consultancy on social and cultural dynamics, and the author of the new book Populocracy: The Tyranny of Authenticity and

The Paris Review

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When I first embarked on writing a biography of Pablo Neruda over a decade ago, I wanted to explore the political power of poetry and its capacity to inspire social change. Neruda’s social verse was an integral part of the humanity he expressed; even

Literary Hub

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If antifascist politics have been important to comprehending the course of US politics, it is crucial to understand their basis. What, in other words, is an antifascist? Simply put, an “antifascist” is not someone who merely dislikes fascism. Rather,

The Christian Science Monitor

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Vox rejects the far-right label, but it shares themes with France’s National Front and Italy’s League. Critics call it a throwback to the Franco era.