Potential Lessons From Interwar Europe To Combat Fascism
Fascism appeared as a governing force in a particular period – the interwar one – and in a particular set of places – some countries, but not others. What many…
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Totalitarianism in the twentieth century and beyond
A key under-studied area for analysis is how contemporary extreme right movements can also be seen as totalitarian. Indeed, it is not difficult to find examples of such. According to…
Is the World Undergoing a Deep Populist Transition?
The political momentum and social appeal of the current populist backlash illustrates the persistence of dark collective layers that the postwar transition was meant to have banished. In academia, we…
The Death of Liberalism Has Been Proclaimed Before
The current wave of populism calls to mind the mood of the early 20th century when liberal values in England saw a “strange death.” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent designation…
The Death of Liberalism, Academic Freedom, and Authoritarian Politics
In the same week that Russia’s Vladimir Putin declared Western Liberalism was “obsolete”, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán has consolidated his control over the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The end of a…
The Anti-Democratic Faces of Modernism – Part Two
GUILD SOCIALISM AND ‘POST-LIBERALISM’ Eliot and Pound of course have been attacked for their bad politics; both were close to Hulme, and Hulme and Pound were deeply involved in the…
The Anti-Democratic Faces of Modernism – Part One
As Ronald Bush has pointed out, accounts of the ‘ideological alignment between the oppositional practices of imagism, “anti-democratic” forms of “individualism,” and anarchism’, may ‘[miss] a beat… by not considering…