Pocket Archive: Fascism & The Far Right

In Utah, protests that hinder the functioning of fossil fuel infrastructure could now lead to at least five years in prison. The new rules make Utah the

The SCOTUS' approval rating is rock bottom and votes against the majority's interests—here's how one writer thinks we should respond.

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At various times during the pandemic Britons were advised to stay at home and limit outdoor exercise

Jonah Goldberg tells us he wrote this book to get even.  The liberals started it by “insist[ing] that conservatism has connections with fascism” (p.  22).  Conservatives “sit dumbfounded by the nastiness of the slander” (p.  1).   “The left wields the term fascism like a cudgel” (p.  3).   So Jonah Goldberg has decided it is time to turn the tables and show that “the liberal closet has its own skeletons” (p.  22).   After years of being “called a fascist and a Nazi by smug, liberal know-nothings” he decides that “responding to this slander is a point of personal privilege” (p.  392).

It is not by chance that the very title of this contribution links the return of fascism on the political scene with the crisis of contemporary

The media’s framing of measures like Florida’s African American studies ban is a dangerous falsification of reality

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