A professor at King’s College New York, Joseph Loconte, recently wrote on the origins of fascism in a way that is illuminating to the position we are in today. Before introducing his article, I’d like to back up to something I wrote (in Illiberalism) on this subject a year or so ago: On the far right, […]
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Deified State
A review of Christ Stopped at Eboli, by Carlo Levi, and some thoughts. Eboli is not the disease, it’s a little village in southern Italy. In that part of the world at mid-20th century, they would say Christ stopped at the next village south, Eboli (pronounced probably A-boll-e), as a way of saying civilization did […]
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Two weeks ago, in Epidemic Irrationality, I reviewed Stephen Hicks’ book Explaining Postmodernism. I’d like to build on one feature of his analysis because it goes a long way to explaining some of the political upheaval in recent years. The three-way battle I highlighted in that earlier post used phrases like “classical liberalism,” “leftist illiberalism,” […]
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Terrorists as Fascists Who said this, and when? We are here faced by fascists. Not just their calculated brutality, but their belief that they are superior to every single one of us in this chamber tonight, and all of the people that we represent. They hold us in contempt. They hold our values in contempt. […]
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