Why the Left Sees Fascism Everywhere
Fascism lost World War II. Communism lost the Cold War. Marxism is winning the historical imagination in the twenty-first century. One of the pressing problems with political…
Time With Erich Fromm: A Cautionary Tale
After a more or less successful news hiatus of several weeks (following advice I often give my psychotherapy clients in order to titrate toxic exposure), I had…
Antifascism, True and False: A Review of Paul Gottfried’s “Antifascism: The Course of a Crusade”
Paul Gottfried, Antifascism: The Course of a Crusade. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. In 1944, George Orwell asked :”Why, then, cannot we have a clear and…
Show Me Your Laces: The Identical Aesthetic and Ideological Clash Exemplified by Anarchist and Neo-Fascist Punk
On the twelfth of September, 1992, the Waterloo station of the English National Rail system erupted into a riot, with two groups of men viciously attacking each…
Liberal Fascism
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning. Jonah Goldberg. Doubleday, 2007. Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism finds that…