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The Ethics of Violence: Recent Literature on the Creation of the Contemporary Regime of Law and War

Amanda Alexander writes in 2021: Abstract: This paper reviews a body of recent literature that interrogates the development and deployment of the contemporary regime of political violence. This literature includes Samuel Moyn’s account of the emergence and dominance of the … Continue reading

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Key Thinkers of the Radical Right: Behind the New Threat to Liberal Democracy

Greg Johnson’s review. Here are excerpts from this new book: * Terms such as “Fascism” and “neo-Nazism” are also widely used but refer to political parties that rose and fell in historical circumstances very different from today’s, and so have … Continue reading

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‘The French Origins of “You Will Not Replace Us” – The European thinkers behind the white-nationalist rallying cry’

From The New Yorker: Although Camus presents his definition of “Frenchness” as reasonable and urbane, it is of a piece with a less benign perspective on ethnicity, Islam, and territory which has circulated in his country for decades. Never the … Continue reading

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Foreign Affairs: The European Roots of the Alt-Right – How Far-Right Ideas Are Going International

George Hawley writes: Some figures once associated with the ENR have attacked it for a similar reason, but from the right rather than the left. These critics, most prominent among them the journalist Guillaume Faye, believe that the ENR’s high-minded, … Continue reading

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Making Sense of the Alt Right by George Hawley

Here are selections from this superb new book: * Given everything that occurred in 2016, most observers can be forgiven for failing to note one additional bizarre moment when, in late August, Clinton experienced one of the weirdest examples of … Continue reading

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