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The arrogance and resentments at the heart of the cult are not just historical, but symptoms of our contemporary reality, driven by greed and the exploitation of the young by the old; there are moments that call to mind Pasolini’s anti-fascist film SÁLO, aligned with that film’s deep...
amazed and perhaps a bit shocked. Hampshire clarifies what worked and what did not. The utilization of the RN’s submarine force was particularly effective as well as the surface towed sonar arrays—perhaps the best the world had to offer at the time. Again, his appreciation of the human di...
dis this for 40 years at The Economist and with support from Kennedy, Prince Charles andJapan Emperors family.Two of the NET's lives had first been upended when Hitler got seemingly small advantage of audio tape: his Fascist propaganda drowned airwaves 24/7 whereas other leaders had to make...
Le Pen’s commitment to democracy and the European Union is window dressing. She has managed to normalize her party and cut off the fascist roots of her father because she knows how to play the political game. But there’s no question she’s far right. Meloni comes off as a tough-girl...
Some consider these actions lacking compassion or hateful or discriminatory or fascist, but none of these changes declare anything but what American society and culture considered normal, reasonable, moral, and common sense just since my days as a youth. None of these actions punish people but onl...
That was a fascist regime, and fascism isn’t socialism. Soviet Russia? That was communism, and communism isn’t really socialism. If you ask what the difference is between an actual instantiation of socialist ideals and the historical examples that we have, you will be told that true ...
And finally, the most important of all, we Americans must gird spiritually for the battle. We must dispel the fog of uncertainty and vacillation. We must greet with raucous laughter the corroding arguments of our appeasers and fascists. They doubt democracy. We affirm it triumphantly so that ...
That’s the central question in Horacio Castellanos Moya’s Tyrant Memory, which layers fiction on real events: the attempted 1944 military coup against fascist dictator Maximiliano Hernández Martínez. Moya—a political exile who teaches at the University of Iowa—explores the answer via diary ...
So it looks like Goldberg is guilty of calling his liberal opponents “Fascists” inappropriately, just as he accuses liberals of calling their conservative opponents “Fascists” inappropriately; the difference is that the liberals’ comparison is unfair to conservatives, while Goldberg’s comparison ...