A Century Later: A Renewed Open Letter Against the Return of Fascism
On May 1st 1925, with Mussolini already in power, a group of Italian intellectuals publicly denounced Mussolini’s fascist regime in an open letter. The signatories […]
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I Shall Bear Witness – Victor Klemperer in His Time, and Ours
Victor Klemperer’s diary is a remarkable testimony on life in Nazi Germany told from the perspective of someone whom the state sought to eradicate from the population—and it makes for chilling reading today.
Review: Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen
Ben-Ghiat, Ruth. Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2021. The United States’ recently-held presidential election in November 2024 has thrown […]
Entanglements and Contingencies of Queer Lives in Postwar Germany: In Prospect of a Different Future
Seldom have I read such a mindful, emotionally, intellectually, and politically mature and thought-provoking history of post-fascist Germany, which captured my attention from the acknowledgments […]
How Frodo Baggins Resurrected Italy’s Far-Right Movement
This weblog article was originally written for Dr. Jennifer Evans’ upper-division seminar, “Populism and Authoritarianism in Contemporary Europe,” at Carleton University. To view more entries […]
The Illusion of Control: A Historiographical Essay on the Capabilities and Limits of Fascist Authority
This review essay was originally written for Dr. Brian J Griffith’s upper-division reading seminar, “Comparative Fascisms: 1920s to the Present,” at University of California, Los […]
On Dictators, Ukrainians, and Garrison States: Some Historical Reflections on the Lessons of the 1930s
This article was republished on the New Fascism Syllabus with the permission of the author and the original publisher, Geschichte der Gegenwart A large […]
My Ukraine Is Not Yet Lost
I first went to Ukraine in March 2003 to visit my mother’s hometown of Buczacz, now known as Buchach, and to undertake preliminary research in […]
On Ukraine, Putin, and the Realities and Rhetoric of War
After I wrote the blog post below, I realized that while it reflected some of my thinking as a historian, it was in no way […]
Urban History as an Approach to the Study of (Neo)Fascism
During the past two decades, Fascism Studies has undergone a number of relevant developments. Among these, probably the most salient one has been the transnational […]
