Wajahat Ali speaks to American political scientist and writer Dr. Norman Finkelstein about the denial of his tenure at DePaul University, anti-Semitism, and challenging the academic status quo on the ...

LIBERAL FASCISM: THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN LEFT FROM MUSSOLINI TO THE POLITICS OF MEANING Jonah Goldberg (Doubleday) The next time you’re stuck in traffic and chance puts you behind one of ...

One of the great failures of my book is that it has popularized the use of 'fascism' as an epithet. And one of the things I was hoping to do, and I failed miserably, is shut down the use of the word ...

It would be good to be able to recognize fascism when you see it. Sight is our dominant sense (light travels faster than sound) and provides us warning. In addition, because “fascist” is an epithet as ...

In his latest column for New York, former blogger extraordinaire Andrew Sullivan goes long — really, really long — on why the rise of Donald Trump doesn’t deserve to be dismissed as mere fascism, as ...

So many excitable Americans are hurling accusations of fascism, there might be more definitions of “fascism” than there are actual fascists. Fascism, one of the 20th century’s fighting faiths, has ...

In 2015, “fascism” once again became the highest-octane political epithet in general use. But, though the temptation to call actors like Donald Trump, the Islamic State, and the Tea Party “fascist” is ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Donald Trump mugs for the crowd in front an enormous video of himself at ...