The Critic Needs A New Name
When I was covering NatCon 2023 earlier this month, I couldn’t help but notice the special place reserved for a certain publication above all others. The Critic was the only major UK magazine with a stall at the conference and speakers on stage.(...)
The ChatGPT Sessions
The apple never falls far from the tree. Particularly when it comes to post-fascist parties.(...)
Mussolini’s Grandchildren, by David Broder
Giorgia Meloni’s election win in September 2022 was a watershed moment in history. Coming from Italy’s postfascist right, Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia (FdI) was the first party to overcome the antifascist nostrums that had been integral to European politics since 1945.(...)
The ChatGPT Sessions, Volume 1
By community standards, his trip was a failure. Italian Jews protested Netanyahu's visit, and the community's leader, Noemi Di Segni, excoriated him for the settler pogrom in Hawara and for undermining Israeli democracy.(...)
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.(...)
Mussolini in Myth and Memory, by Paul Corner
Fratelli d’Italia in Torino
They had a different Italy in mind. But the mistake in ad placement was still telling.(...)
Forza Nuova and the Roma Riots
The Green Pass is the Italian version of the EU Digital COVID Certificate. (...)
Pandemic Rebels and Fascist Longings
Since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic, opposition to anti-contagion efforts has been led by a small number of fringe groups and quasi-movements linked together by social media.(...)