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Category Archives: Fascism
Why Is Columbia University Statistics Professor Andrew Gelman Calling Harvard Law Professor Adrian Vermeule A Fascist?
On March 17, 2026, Columbia University Statistics professor Andrew Gelman blogs: Paul Campos expresses irritation at Adrian Vermeule, the fascist-supporting Harvard professor. I feel that irritation; indeed, I share it (see also here). But I also want to draw an … Continue reading
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How’s it working out for the elite to call Donald Trump a fascist?
ChatGPT says: 1. It has not weakened him broadly. The term fascist invoked by critics in elite media and by some former officials did not collapse Trump’s support. Many observers note that the public remains deeply divided, and talking past … Continue reading
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The Fascism Charge In American Politics
I notice that The Atlantic’s Jonathan Rauch says the Trump administration is fascist. ChatGPT says: From an Alliance Theory perspective, the word “fascism” in American politics functions less as a precise historical diagnosis and more as an alliance-labeling weapon. Alliance … Continue reading
Fascism Comes to America: A Century of Obsession in Politics and Culture by Bruce Kuklick
ChatGPT says: Bruce Kuklick surveys how the term fascism (and “fascist”) has been used in the U.S. across journalism, popular culture, politics, and academia. He contends that in the U.S. context the word has become “little more than a political … Continue reading
Rony Guldmann Revisits Liberal Fascism
There was only one thing that jarred me in Rony Guldmann’s book, Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression, and that was its serious treatment of a ridiculous Jonah Goldberg book. I get it though. I’ve made similar mistakes many times. I’ve … Continue reading
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Is Trumpism Fascism?
Nathan Cofnas writes April 9: Was it a mistake to vote for Trump? If I’d known that MAGA would become a poverty cult obsessed with bringing Chinese sweatshops to the US, I would have supported DEI Kamala. However, as far … Continue reading
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Conservative Anti-Fascism
June 6, 2017, Dennis Prager wrote: One would think that Jonah Goldberg, of all people, would understand this. He is the author of what I consider to be a modern classic, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, … Continue reading
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The New Fascism
I notice that people generally use “fascism” to mean some political development they don’t like. After 9-11, the West could have treated the threat of Al Qaeda and other Islamic terrorists as primarily a law enforcement problem. Instead, the Bush … Continue reading
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What Is Fascism? (2-20-22)
00:00 What is fascism? PhD student Matthew Ghobrial Cockerill joins intoxicated, https://twitter.com/GhobrialMatthew 01:00 Fascism: The Career Of A Concept, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=129495 02:45 Are Republicans fascist? 06:00 Is Richard Spencer fascist? 10:00 Are lockdowns fascist? 11:00 Is socialized medicine fascist? 11:30 Italian … Continue reading
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Sociology Responds To Fascism
Highlights from this 1992 book: * Sociologists were not notably successful in understanding fascism in the interwar era, much less in educating the public about the subject, and sociologists served the Nazi regimes just as other scholars did. The history … Continue reading
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