John Foster / 10 Oct 2022
Surviving Fascism
Philosophy and Sociology, by Theodor Adorno
Looking back from a distance of more than half a century, 1960 appears almost as a period of calm.(...)
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Natalie Sarkic-Todd / 06 Oct 2022
Exhibiting Apartheid
The Human Zoo Show
It was an act of contrition. In June, the King of Belgium returned a tooth to the Congo.(...)
Nathan Akehurst / 30 Sep 2022
Mussolini’s Ghost
The Italian Future Past
Four days before Mussolini’s ghost came back, a friend and I raced through the high-walled alleys of Venice in dazzling afternoon sunshine.(...)
Joel Schalit / 26 Sep 2022
The Week Before the Election
Photographing Italian Politics
Few Italian elections since the turn of the millennium have felt more like the twentieth century than this one.(...)
John Foster / 24 Sep 2022
Can’t Forget Fascism
Mussolini in Myth and Memory, by Paul Corner
If the spin is correct, Giorgia Meloni won Italy’s election already.(...)
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John Foster / 13 May 2022
Know It When We See It
George Mosse on Fascism
One of the great ironies of today's politics is that when it comes to fascism, it’s often difficult to know what one is talking about.(...)
Keith Kahn-Harris / 07 Mar 2022
Putin Comes Clean
From Denial to Invasion
Invasion is an act of commitment. To send troops in, to kill, to seek to dominate, is to rule out alternative courses of action, perhaps forever.(...)
Josh White / 14 Feb 2022
Quick to the Punch
The Sins of The Daily Express
The Daily Express Building still stands at 120 Fleet Street. It's a monument to a different era in British journalism. (...)
Joel Schalit / 08 Feb 2022
Reading Propaganda Posters
Fratelli d’Italia in Torino
They had a different Italy in mind. But the mistake in ad placement was still telling.(...)
John Foster / 03 Dec 2021
The Southern Question
The Rebirth of Italian Communism, by David Broder
Italy occupies a peculiar place in the history of the left.(...)