Who Are You Calling a Fascist?
Historians and scholars can’t agree on a definition of fascism, much less whether today’s violent, authoritarian-curious GOP is an example of it.
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Historians and scholars can’t agree on a definition of fascism, much less whether today’s violent, authoritarian-curious GOP is an example of it.
What is “woke”? The question is suddenly relevant because the activists of MSNBC and the “1619 Project” say conservatives can’t define what it is. Big mistake. Confident that woke was just a phrase, even a dog whistle, they have opened Pandora’s box. Conservatives will relish keeping that Pandora’s box open a little longer because they now have an excuse to expose a central strategy of leftists—how they manufacture grievances and then plan to use resulting anger to provoke systemic transformation. Overwrought confidence will get you in trouble.
Today I follow up on Friday’s piece on the Deep Archeology of Fox News with a look at a closely related but distinct story: the counter-revolution of capital in…
What is “woke”? The question is suddenly relevant because the activists of MSNBC and the “1619 Project” say conservatives can’t define what it is. Big mistake. Confident that woke was just a phrase, even a dog whistle, they have opened Pandora’s box.
Roger Kimball on the choices facing the West.