Tag Archives: Fascism

Flannery O’Connor’s DEI Revelation

In Flannery O’Connor’s “Revelation,” we see the status anxiety that is driving many Americans towards reactionary politics.

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Artists Leading the Resistance

Artists like Bruce Springsteen are taking on Donald Trump, whose attacks on art and artists is straight out the fascist playbook.

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What Makes a Nation Strong? Not Fascism

Emerson’s “A Nation’s Strength” is must reading in this time of trial.

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Singing the Song of Angry Men

Suddenly Victor Hugo’s revolutionary energies apply to the United States after years of our being complacent about our democracy.

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Responding to the Musk-Trump Coup

In response to attempted takeovers such as Elon Musk’s, poet Ilya Kaminsky urges us to wake up and resist. Anne Lamott suggests some of the forms this can take.

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Auden on Living in an Age of Anxiety

In “Age of Anxiety,” Auden explains why it’s so hard to pierce fascism’s bubble.

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To Survive Trump, Be Like Lizzie

How to survive Trumpism’s anticipated assaults on democracy? Reading Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” is a good place to start.

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Not Rage Or Tears but Radical Hope

With her story “Things,” Le Guin gives us a way of understanding MAGA nihilists–and of seeing alternatives.

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Does Clockwork Orange Describe Us?

The novella Clockwork Orange captures the process of fascist conditioning, such as we are seeing carried out by Putin on swatches of the GOP.

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