fascism

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/30/2020
  

  Fascism: A Concern

  Is the application of "fascism" to describe today's politics accurate or useful? Historians including Samuel Moyn, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, David A. Bell, and Heather Ann Thompson add perspective. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  8/3/2020
  

  When Fascist Aggression in Ethiopia Sparked a Movement of Black Solidarity

  by Ruth Ben-Ghiat

  The Italo-Ethiopian War may remain an obscure historical event to many Americans. Yet it shocked millions into action and fueled a reckoning with institutionalized racism and fascism.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  6/24/2020
  

  A Brief History of Anti-Fascism

  by James Stout

  Today's anti-fascism isn’t about waving flags at football matches; it's about fighting, through direct action, racists and genocidaires wherever they can be found. The author discusses the history of the movement.

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  6/22/2020
  

  American Fascism: It Has Happened Here

  by Sarah Churchwell

  A cultural historian of the American right argues that efforts to trace American allegiance to European fascist movements miss the point. There are American traditions of racial dictatorship, strident nationalism and populist demagoguery that have come close to converging in a homegrown form of fascism. 

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• SOURCE: Bill Moyers
  6/5/2020
  

  We Hold This Truth to Be Self-Evident: It’s Happening Before Our Very Eyes

  “All this open talk by Trump of dominance is pretty undisguised fascism," said Bernard Weisberger, a historian who lived through the rises of Hitler and Mussolini.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/6/2020
  

  Coronavirus Depletes the Keepers of Europe’s Memory

  The pandemic has hastened the departure of witnesses to the wrenching conflicts of the last century, allowing rising political forces to recast history.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  5/31/2020
  

  What Is Antifa, the Movement Trump Wants to Declare a Terror Group?

  History professors Mark Bray and Ruth Ben-Ghiat help break down the definition, origins, goals and methods of antifa.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4/20/2020
  

  Why Did Women Vote For Hitler? Long-Forgotten Essays Hold Some Answers

  by Sarah R. Warren, Daniel Maier-Katkin, Nathan Stoltzfus

  More than 30 essays on the subject “Why I became a Nazi” written by German women in 1934 have been lying fallow in the archives of the Hoover Institution in Palo Alto for decades.

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• 4/19/2020
  

  The Cure May Be Deadlier Than the Disease. Much Deadlier.

  by Jonathan Rose

  We are rightly concerned with saving lives from disease. But we must also consider the potentially deadly consequences of authoritarianism and prejudice unleashed by an economic depression. 

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• 4/19/2020
  

  Has Italy Fallen, Again, to Dictatorship?

  by Christopher Binetti

  As a result of several factors--a tradition of temporary strongman leaders, a history of disguised dictatorship, and a unitary government for a regionally divided people--Italy has been more susceptible than other liberal democracies of falling into autocracy in the current COVID crisis. 

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  3/30/2020
  

  The Prep-School Nazi

  by Benjamin Wallace

  Before he was Norman Spear, hate group founder and possible Russian asset Rinaldo Nazzaro was just another Jersey boy.

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• SOURCE: National Interest
  3/31/2020
  

  America Has a History of Pandemic Denial

  by Joseph Loconte

  Donald Trump wasn't the first president to misunderestimate a national threat. Franklin Roosevelt played his part in the collective denial and dishonesty of the age—until the "ideology of fascism" contagion came knocking.

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• 3/22/2020
  

  Plots Against America?: Jim Crow was Homegrown Fascism

  by Guy Lancaster

  HBO’s prestige adaptation of Philip Roth’s 2004 novel The Plot Against America makes it worthwhile to examine whether fascism is really so alien to the United States as many wish to believe.

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• SOURCE: Forward
  3/15/2020
  

  ‘The Plot Against America’ is Truer than even Philip Roth Knew

  by PJ Grisar

  Not that long ago, America welcomed its first Nazis.

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• 3/15/2020
  

  "Faster" Author Neal Bascomb on the Jewish Auto Racer who Defied Hitler

  by Neal Bascomb

  Rene Dreyfus, a former top driver on the international racecar circuit, had been banned from the best European teams—and fastest cars—by the mid-1930s because of his Jewish heritage.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  1/27/20
  

  The Last Time Democracy Almost Died

  by Jill Lepore

  Learning from the upheaval of the nineteen-thirties.

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• 1/5/20
  

  A Historian Reflects on the Return of Fascism

  by Lawrence Wittner

  In the last decade or so, enormous headway has been made by movements and parties following the old fascist playbook, with rightwing demagogues trumpeting its key elements of virulent nationalism, racial and religious intolerance, and militarism. 

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• 9/8/19
  

  1933 May Be Closer than We Think

  by Frank Domurad

  Increasing cultural, social and political continuities between Weimar and America should give us serious concern in assessing the fate of these two democracies as part of an analogous historical phenomenon.

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• 7/28/19
  

  White Nationalists and the Legacy of the Waffen-SS from Postwar Europe to Today

  by Adrian Gilbert

  Recently there has been a trend to rehabilitate Waffen-SS veterans from Eastern European countries and to reconsider them as patriots rather than agents of Nazi tyranny. 

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• 4/19/19
  

  The Coming of American Fascism, 1920–1940

  by Chris Wright

  Michael Joseph Roberto's The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920–1940 is particularly timely, as the old structures of American fascism have deepened in the last generation and colonized much of the world.