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Revolutionary Victor Serge Has a Message for Our Times
Victor Serge, a rare survivor of Stalin's Terror, had a keen, razor-sharp intelligence and made observations that are highly relevant to our troubled times.
10 Oct 2019
Television
'Designated Survivor' S3: How Do We Deal with Neo-Fascists, Anyway?
Designated Survivor Season Three effectively criticizes the Trump administration and poses complex questions in our time of the rise of the extreme right.
10 Jul 2019
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Two Fascist Perspectives on WWII: The Colonel's Wife and Deviation
Authors Rosa Liksom and Luce D'Eramo brilliantly convey the seduction and willful disbelief associated with fascism; how one brushes off their misgivings, thinking that it will be different for them.
20 Jun 2019
Theatre
Make America Bleed Again: The Violent Geography of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ​'Oklahoma!'​
Originally produced as fascism spread throughout Europe and nativism spread in the US, Oklahoma!'s exploration of belonging was a conspicuously political one.
04 Jun 2019
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George Orwell as Essayist: The Democratic Socialist Who Never Sought a Safe Space
George Orwell's essays -- so urgently relevant in these times -- convey the political and social views he would later express in his fiction.
07 Nov 2018
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'We're Still at War': Illustrated Stories Testifying to Atrocities, Survival, and the Human Condition
Post Bellum's publishing mission is not simply to isolate testimony from those who suffered but to also shed light on those who worked against the smothering constraints of fascism and totalitarianism.
19 Sep 2018
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Fascism Shows Its Everyday Face in 'The Order of the Day'
Éric Vuillard's work is a short, sublime history that provides a necessary and contemporary service by stripping away the mythic quality of Nazi fascism.
08 Aug 2018
Books
Opportunity in Crises: On Chantal Mouffe's 'For a Left Populism'
By adopting a populist strategy, the left could finally overcome neoliberalism, replacing it with a deeper, kinder and more radical form of democracy, Mouffe argues.
02 Aug 2018
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On the Tight Confines of Madeleine Albright's Cold War Intellectual Straitjacket
The status quo of the past 30 years facilitated a massive transfer in wealth and public resources away from the average American and into the hands of a wealthy minority; a radical coup if ever there was one. Yet it was achieved democratically. A response to Madeleine Albright's Fascism: A Warning.
20 Jul 2018
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'The Seventh Cross' Is a Vital Tale for Anyone Concerned About the Resurgence of Totalitarianism
The beautiful storytelling of Anna Seghers' World War II classic belies its important insights into life under fascism.
12 Jul 2018
Film
Killing Is Killing: Logan's Enduring Excellence
In a competitive sea of superhero films, Logan continues to stand out with its tremendous performances, thematic complexity, remarkably critical take on violence, and deeply stirring pathos.
25 Jun 2018
Television
Puritans with Machine Guns in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
The first season of this icily horrific series is a crash course in the possibilities of a uniquely American 'It Could Happen Here' patriarchal Christian fascism.
26 Mar 2018
Books
Double-agents, Movie Stars, Studio Moguls, and 'Hitler in Los Angeles'
While America was riveted by the "Red Scare" on the one hand, it failed to see what the other hand, the Nazi threat, was doing.
12 Feb 2018
Books
'The Prisoner' Has Superbly Outlived Its Original Context
Rogue filmmaker Alex Cox ties The Prisoner's island mentality and palpable "cupcake fascism" to current political events, including Brexit, in I Am Not a Number.
02 Feb 2018
Books
Imagine Fighting Fascism
Two recently translated works -- Lydie Salvayre's Cry, Mother Spain and Joan Sales' Uncertain Glory -- bring to life the profound complexity of an early struggle against fascism, the Spanish Civil War.
08 Dec 2017
Politics
Can We Say the F Word Yet? On Fascism and Humor
In light of the decrees and executive orders signed thus far by Donald Trump, we might reasonably ask: is fascism relevant to America's current political state?
16 Apr 2017
Music
The Great I Am: Magic, Fascism, and Race in David Bowie's 'Blackstar'
Blackstar addresses the tension between David Bowie’s avowed attraction to ideologies of blood and soil, and his equally committed obsession with African American musical forms and tropes.
Rahm Bambam
11 Jan 2016
Books
Roger Luckhurst's 'Zombies' Is Gory and Highly Informative
Zombies is just as much an anti-imperialist work as it is an historical examination of the walking dead.
28 Oct 2015
Books
Of Maus and Men: Postwar Identity Through a Postmodern Lens in Art Spiegelman's 'Maus'
Far more than a comic book with an edge, Art Spiegelman's Maus interrogates the fallacious identity politics of the Nazis, to an unforgettable effect. Given recent events in Europe, this is a vital book to revisit.
Eric Steingold
23 Mar 2015
Visual Arts
No One Is Untouchable: Not Federico Garcia Lorca, Not Ai Weiwei
Governments tend to take on their worst form, to devolve to their most horrific manifestation, when they kill artists. Artists look out into the horrors of the world, and inevitably, the horrors sometimes reach back.
22 Jul 2011
Technology
Techno’s Labor Force, Rock’s Betrayal, and the Birth of the Fascist Groove Thing
Electronic music has always maintained an ambivalent attitude towards labor, at once rejecting the notion of wage internment and creative inhibition while embracing the beauty of the cyborgian mechanics of the factory and the allure of discipline and dominance.
10 Jul 2011
Books
Palahniuk's Fight Club Punch: We Never See It Coming
With Fight Club, whether he intended to or not, Palahniuk has shown us that fascism can be created right before our eyes, almost invisibly, and we won’t even see it happening.
20 Mar 2007
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