Fascism and Bad Faith

This is the second in a series analyzing The Anatomy of Fascism. Click here to read Part One. Our sixth grade class election was a bitter affair. It pitted a bookish girl named Beth against my buddy Kevin, a jovial, popular class clown who surprised us all when he answered

I’m halfway through Robert O. Paxton’s The Anatomy of Fascism and I take no pleasure in reporting the United States is checking a lot of fascist boxes.  Too many. Way too many.  Sometimes I find myself squirming in my seat as I read the timely tome, hoping – praying

The funniest part of Tucker Carlson going all the way to Russia to visit a grocery store is that he’s definitely never shopped at an American grocery store.  The living embodiment of the country club Republican – the heir of William Buckley’s New England-style fascism, so prim and proper

Social media, once you’ve breached a certain follower threshold, is like a nonstop party begging for your attendance.  For some folks, that threshold is a few thousands followers. For others, it’s tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands. I don’t say any of this to garner

It was all so absurd and unbelievable from the start. Conservatives across the US have used social media over the past month to weave a conspiracy in which a fascist film known as Sound of Freedom was being censored and undermined by shadowy forces. We were to believe that wage

That there are three Supreme Court justices ready to end free and fair elections in the United States is a crisis in and of itself. Thankfully, for now those three robed fascists with billionaire sponsors – Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch – are in the Court's minority on