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Fascism
How Do You Rebuild a Nazi’s House? For The Zone of Interest , a crew meticulously studied Rudolf Höss’s actual house, then created a replica down the street.
early and often
Nov. 28, 2023
Conservative Christian Affection for Fascists Predates Trump Anyone shocked by Christian Trump voters’ tolerance for his increasingly authoritarian rhetoric and policies should look to European history.
By Ed Kilgore
How to Make a Semi-Fascist Party The hostile, paranoid, and increasingly authoritarian path ahead for American conservatism.
By Jonathan Chait
movie review
Oct. 7, 2022
Amsterdam Should Feel Intoxicating, But It’s ExhaustingWhenever David O. Russell’s film is operating on an edge of uncertainty, it works. But the freewheeling freewheeling-ness grates.
By Bilge Ebiri
christianity
Oct. 30, 2021
Are Conservative Christians the Real ‘Secularists’ Now? In their subordination of religion to cultural and political conservatism, many believers are pursuing power more than righteousness.
By Ed Kilgore
Is It Finally Time to Begin Calling Trumpism Fascism? The abrupt lurch of MAGA into opposition to democracy and celebration of insurrection is a new development.
By Ed Kilgore
marjorie taylor greene
July 7, 2021
Marjorie Taylor Greene Compares Liberals to Nazis — Again After apologizing for comparing COVID-19 measures to the Holocaust, MTG is still calling vaccinators “medical brownshirts.”
By Ed Kilgore
republicans
Mar. 31, 2021
The Rotten Core of Republican Appeals to the Working Class Republicans are embracing the perilous tradition of producerism, offering working-class voters a mix of nativism, protectionism, and culture war.
By Ed Kilgore
institutions
Dec. 1, 2020
Artists to MoMA: Take Down Philip Johnson’s Name The founding director of the museum’s Architecture and Design department was a known white supremacist.
By Diana Budds
jiminy cricket!
Aug. 19, 2020
By Rebecca Alter
vision 2020
Dec. 30, 2019
My Existential Dread of 2020 The long-awaited reckoning with Trumpism is about to arrive.
By Ed Kilgore
the way we were
July 22, 2019
Let’s Take a Moment to Remember The Lion King ’s Goose-Stepping Hyenas 25 years ago, Disney released an animated movie about African wildlife with imagery inspired by Nazi propaganda.
By Nate Jones
donald trump
July 17, 2019
Trump’s ‘Love It Or Leave It’ Jingoism Was Predictable All Along Ross Douthat’s suggestion that Trump perverted an initially healthy skepticism about American virtue misses the authoritarian impulses he represents.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
June 20, 2019
Trump and the Rhetoric of Fascism Why is it worse for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to call Trump a fascist than for Trump to advocate fascism?
By Jonathan Chait
Fox News Refuses to Air Ad for Oscar-Nominated Anti-Fascism Doc During Hannity An ad for the doc A Night at the Garden – which features uncut footage of marching American Nazis – will only run in L.A., not nationally.
By Matt Stieb
role models
Mar. 16, 2018
Steve Bannon Says Mussolini Was a ‘Guy’s Guy,’ Who Was ‘Clearly Loved by Women’ The former White House strategist also loves the fascist dictator’s fashion sense.
By Amanda Arnold
How to Maintain Your Sense of Proportion in the Trump Era The closer we get to the 2018 and 2020 elections, the less sense it makes to treat Trump’s very presence as an intolerable, outrageous scandal.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
Nov. 29, 2017
By Jonathan Chait
Zut Alors: Bannon’s Taste for Franco-Fascists For all the efforts being made to normalize Stephen Bannon, evidence keeps coming out of rather alien influences on the president’s chief strategist.
By Ed Kilgore
This Beauty Brand Won’t Sell to Trump Supporters Illamasqua asks that its customers commit to an anti-fascism pledge.
By Kathleen Hou
Milo Yiannopoulos and the Gay Fascist Sophisticate Milo Yiannopoulos has revived the old trope of the decadent, gay, fascist sophisticate. What does this tell us about our political moment?
By Park MacDougald
