August 14, 2024
The Return of Fascism
Thinking about a return of fascism now would be like imagining Pope Francis launching a crusade to liberate the holy sites or the neo-Bourbons restoring the Bourbons to the throne of Naples. Fascism was born and thrived in a world entirely different from ours, a world that also saw the rise of German Nazism, Spanish Falangism, and Japanese imperialism—movements that, despite their differences, shared certain characteristics.