‘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.
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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.
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.
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.
‘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.
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.
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.
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.
‘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.
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.
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.
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.