Swastikas of Both Sorts: Hindu Nationalism's Fascist Nostalgia Hindu nationalism is nostalgic for a golden age that never existed, before the invasions of first the Muslims and then the British. Anwesh Satpathy 30 Apr 2024 · 12 min read
Understanding the Jewish Catastrophe Dan Stone's new book shows how important aspects of the Holocaust have been neglected in popular consciousness. Ralph Leonard 5 Feb 2024 · 12 min read
The Genocidal Imagination Philosophies of human cruelty, from Sade to October 7th. Pascal Bruckner 12 Dec 2023 · 21 min read
Benito Mussolini and the Fascist Love Affair with Soccer Embracing a sport that combines nationalism, mass spectacle, and physical refinement, Il Duce set out to make Italy a World Cup champion. Luciano Wernicke 29 Oct 2022 · 8 min read
Face to Face with the Auschwitz Memorial Twitter Project The Nazi concentration camp system still remains a unicum, both in its extent and its quality. At no other place or time has one seen a phenomenon so unexpected and so complex: never have so many human lives been extinguished in so short a time, and with so lucid a Geoffrey C. Kabat 5 Nov 2021 · 10 min read
Dumbing Fascism Down, Then And Now Stalin publicly misused the term so often, in fact, that Princeton history professor Stephen Kotkin has suggested he lacked a fundamental understanding of the word’s meaning. Bradford H.B. 22 May 2020 · 8 min read
A Tale of Two Cities: The Modern Soothsayers How much longer people are going to listen to these modern soothsayers. At this point, they are naked lobbyists for entrenched special interests. Neema Parvini 22 Dec 2018 · 5 min read
What Can We Learn from Dictators' Literature? Dictators, of course, are terrible people. They also tend to be terrible writers. Yet many tyrants have entertained the illusion that they were literary super geniuses. Mein Kampf and Quotations from Chairman Mao (aka The Little Red Book) are the best-known works in the dictatorial canon, but they represent only Daniel Kalder 14 Dec 2018 · 10 min read