Fascism

In the early nineties, the country turned against the establishment and right-wing populists thrived. A new history reassesses their impact.

In a new book, “Did It Happen Here?,” scholars debate what the F-word conceals and what it reveals.

As he leads the polls nearly a year out from Election Day, the former President is taking the sort of hateful language that in the past he’s used about immigrants and applying it to his political enemies.

In the almost eight hundred pages that make up “Lies and Sorcery,” Elsa Morante wrote about women’s lives without apology or fear of ugliness.

In a new book, Elena Kostyuchenko attempts to work through how she missed—or, rather, failed to adequately react to—Russia’s descent into fascism.

Centers hold, until they don’t.

What matters about identifying the Trumpist line as fascist is that it is diagnostic.

Whoever killed Dugina likely meant to kill her more famous father, but that reveals little about the motives and identities of the perpetrators.

Are you running up that road wondering how long it might take to travel from Texas to Minnesota?

“Anglo-Saxons have for too long ceded space-laser superiority to the airborne laser beams of foreign banking élites,” she said. “This shall not stand on my watch.”

The Polish government has delayed implementing the court decision that sparked the demonstrations, yet people continue to flood the streets all over the country.

Trump is vowing to designate the movement as a terrorist organization. But its supporters believe that they are protecting their communities—and that confronting fascists with violence can be justified.

The African-American contralto gave a brilliant demonstration of her full humanity at a time when white supremacists wanted to deny it.

To the President, power sounds like gunfire and helicopters; it sounds like the silence of men in uniform when they are asked who they are.

The Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley sees parallels between history’s autocrats and the President’s actions in response to the pandemic.

The controversy surrounding the Valley of the Fallen, the mausoleum that housed Franco’s remains, has as much to do with its past as with its present.

In late January, fifteen bands performed at the Black Flags Over Brooklyn festival, which was organized as probably New York City’s first anti-Fascist extreme-metal show.

The book studies the work of the Emergency Rescue Committee, an organization that sent a high-school teacher to France to facilitate the escape of those who were trapped when the Nazis marched into Paris.

Decades after Franco’s regime, a new government and its citizens seek to unearth the crimes of the past.

A clear-eyed new biography asks us to contemplate why the impresario of twentieth-century architecture descended into such a morass of far-right politics—and how he managed to climb back to the top.