This is a fascinating story about the life of one of the 20th century’s great economic and social historians and the memory of his brother. Here is Madoc Cairns at The New Statesman: When they told Frank Thompson they would...
Up until this point,Christopher Browning, a historian at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, has not used the word “fascism” to describe Donald Trump and the movement he leads. But it looks like he has changed his mind. Browning is...
Over at The Washington Post a scholar of fascism suggests that the phrase “semi-fascism” makes sense, historically, when applied to Trump. Here is a taste of Federico Finchelstein’s piece: President Biden has taken a firm stance on the modern-day threat...
When I interviewed my Italian-American grandfather before he died several years ago at the age of 103, he told me that there were members of my extended family in America who supported Benito Mussolini in the 1930s. I though about...
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