Leonard Weinberg

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Antisemitism In The Anti-Vax Movement Is Nothing New

In April 1955, Dr. Jonas Salk (1914-1995), a virology researcher at the University of Pittsburgh’s school of medicine, announced he had received confirmation the vaccination he had developed was a…

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4 min

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Is The Supreme Court Undemocratic?

US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts have recently denied that the court is a partisan institution. Rather than render its decisions based on Republican or…

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5 min

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America Classified As A Declining Democracy By Experts, Again

A long list of journalists, academics, and elected officials have sounded the alarm: Democracy is under threat. According to Freedom House and other research groups, the number of democracies in the world…

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5 min

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In Rural Nevada, A Microcosm Of The GOP’s Increasingly Radical Local Politics

Oftentimes the extent to which the American population has become divided politically is expressed in the media by the results of public opinion surveys and the results of election contests.…

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4 min

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After Serving Corporations For Decades, GOP Pivots To Fake Populism

For many years its liberal and Democratic critics depicted the Republican Party as the party of ‘big business.’ These critics claimed that the GOP’s principal role at both the national…

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Neo-Nazis Push Lies And Revisionist History

In its annual review of American “hate groups”, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) reported the presence of 63 neo-Nazi groups active throughout the United States during 2020. Perhaps the most shocking…

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COVID-19 Highlighted The Failures Of Conservatism

Decades ago America’s two major political parties were divided largely over the role of government or, more specifically, the federal government’s role in the economy. Democrats, at least outside the…

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The Insurrection Was A Confederate Resurgence

On the afternoon of January 6, 2021, thousands of Trump loyalists staged an armed insurrection at the US Capitol in Washington. Their aim was to prevent Congress from confirming the…

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Trump Solidifies Place In History Among Failed Right-Wing Dictators

Trump is on the way out the door. Following his incitement of a radical right terrorist attack on the US Capitol on January 6, the House has impeached him for…

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Antisemitism In The Anti-Vax Movement Is Nothing New

Is The Supreme Court Undemocratic?

America Classified As A Declining Democracy By Experts, Again

In Rural Nevada, A Microcosm Of The GOP’s Increasingly Radical Local Politics

After Serving Corporations For Decades, GOP Pivots To Fake Populism

Neo-Nazis Push Lies And Revisionist History

COVID-19 Highlighted The Failures Of Conservatism

The Insurrection Was A Confederate Resurgence

Trump Solidifies Place In History Among Failed Right-Wing Dictators

US Buffalo Shooting: The Depressing Predictability of Far-Right Terrorism and How to Stop It

Nasser Kurdy and David Tucker. A Reply to Hate: Forgiving My Attacker. Stuttgart: Ibidem, 2021.

Nathaniël D. B. Kunkeler. Making Fascism in Sweden and the Netherlands: Myth-Creation and Respectability, 1931-40. London: Bloomsbury, 2021.

CARR Reform Statement

Webinar Series: The Future of Ideologies (Michael Freeden)