Stormclouds Over the Capitol
Mary Clare Jalonick’s oral history of the 6 January riot is an important corrective to the second Trump administration’s vandalism of the historical record.
Ron Capshaw
· 7 min read
Fascism
A collection of 11 posts
The Feminist, the Filmmaker, and the Führer
Susan Sontag’s 1974 essay about Leni Riefenstahl and fascist aesthetics displayed the critic at her most stiflingly moralistic and aristocratic.
Annalisa Zox-Weaver
· 25 min read
Were the Nazis Left-Wing?
The parallels between Nazism and communism complicate the standard left–right divide.
Gerfried Ambrosch
· 10 min read
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
· 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
· 12 min read
The Genocidal Imagination
Philosophies of human cruelty, from Sade to October 7th.
Pascal Bruckner
· 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
· 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
· 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.
· 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
· 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
· 10 min read