Tag: Fascism
Why We Can’t Stop Arguing About Whether Trump Is a Fascist
Shaw could have emphasized even deeper roots. According to “Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law,” by James Q. Whitman, the Nazis got some of their worst ideas from us; “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” by Isabel Wilkerson, dilates on the resemblances between the Nuremberg laws and anti-miscegenation laws in Texas and North Carolina; “Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism,” by Rachel Maddow, quotes Hitler telling an American reporter, in 1931, “I regard
Making Sense of the Fascism Debate
Politics
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March 19, 2024
A Rorschach test for understanding what is ailing American society.
Is Donald Trump a fascist? The debate itself is revealing.
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Since the beginning of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2015, there has been a public obsession with
What Is the History of Fascism in the United States?
Books & the Arts
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January 17, 2024
In Fascism Comes to America, Bruce Kuklick traces the shifting meanings of the term “fascist” from its origins to the present day and how it has, over the years, gradually lost its coherence.
The term “fascism,” as we know it, originates in the Latin fasces, the name for the bundle of
A Russian Journalist’s Pained Love for Her Country
When Elena Kostyuchenko was five years old, in Yaroslavl, a provincial city a hundred and seventy miles from Moscow, the corner of the room that she shared with her mother was taken up by a television with a bulging screen and a fuzzy picture. Kostyuchenko was captivated. She brushed the dust off the picture with her fingers. “It felt like touching a moth’s wings, ever-so-gently,” she writes in “I Love Russia,” a memoir and collection of reportage translated by Bela
A Far-Right Fire Is Blazing Across France
Common Sense Fiscal Policy or Austerity by Another Name?
The Right’s Attempted Extermination Campaign of Queer People Is Textbook Fascism
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The Western Media Is Whitewashing the Azov Battalion
Another Side of W.E.B. Du Bois
One of the most significant American political thinkers of the 20th century, W.E.B. Du Bois is perhaps best known for his books The Souls of Black Folk (1903) and Black Reconstruction in America (1935). The former is considered a classic sociological study of the Black experience in the United States, while the latter is a landmark history of the Reconstruction era. Du Bois was also one of the founders
