Fascism Articles

Ghosts of Fascists Past

Ian Kershaw | Feb 23, 2011
Engulfed by bank failures and street protests not seen since the Great Depression, Europe appears ripe for a fascist renaissance. This century's scapegoat: Muslim immigrants. Is the Continent ripe for a fascist renaissance?

Finding Forster

Ian Buruma | Oct 20, 2010
The antiliberal defenders of civilization—resisting the Ground Zero mosque—are wrong. Liberalism still offers the best hope for combating extremism.

On War and Choice

Lawrence Freedman | Apr 20, 2010
It has long been said that there are wars of necessity and wars of choice. But enemies always adapt, especially in our world of terrorists, failing states and delinquent regimes. Every war is a war of choice.

Castro and the Caudillo

Irving Louis Horowitz | Aug 29, 2007
Francoism in Spain did not survive its namesake. Cuba’s brand of communism is likely to suffer a similar fate.

Suffering

Alan J. Kuperman | Mar 01, 2003
David Rieff's frustrations show in his effort to make sense of post-Cold War humanitarianism.

Judging Nazism and Communism

Martin Malia | Sep 01, 2002
Judging between the totalitarian evils of the 20th century need not wait for a more balanced historiography; alas, the long farewell is not quite over.

The Ground and Nature of Human Rights: Another Round

William Schulz
Robin Fox
Francis Fukuyama
| Jun 01, 2002
The true source of human rights in dispute--the debate continues.

Il Caso Silone

Michael P. McDonald | Sep 01, 2001
Leftist intellectual, communist apostate and fascist spy? Shoddy scholarship has obscured the legacy of Ignazio Silone, the political lightning rod of 20th-century Italian literati.

Human Nature and Human Rights

Robin Fox | Dec 01, 2000
"Human rights" as understood today bear little relation to what it means to be human; but that does not faze their advocates.

American Sovereignty and the UN

Jesse Helms | Dec 01, 2000
The UN aspires to impose its moral authority on the United States in the name of international justice. The American people will not buy it.

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