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How the Nazis destroyed the first gay rights movement
The 1920s and early ‘30's looked like the beginning of the end for centuries of gay intolerance. Then came fascism and the Nazis.
‘Horseshoe theory’ is nonsense – the far right and far left have little in common
Both attack the status-quo, but for entirely different reasons.
It’s dangerous to flatter Trump’s narcissism with too much attention
Donald Trump embodies the corrosive culture of narcissism at its worst. It's a trap.
The world’s words of the year pass judgement on a dark, surreal 2016
All over the world, people are trying to boil down their experiences of 2016 into a single word. The results speak for themselves.
Donald Trump is no Mussolini, but liberal democracy could still be in danger
Two Italian scholars who fled fascism in the 1920s urgently warned that American democracy was vulnerable to the same gradual erosion as in Italy. Their message still rings true today.
No, this isn’t the 1930s – but yes, this is fascism
Hateful movements were able to grow in the early 20th century because the centre right let it happen.
Donald Trump’s slogan betrays a renewed political fixation on the past
If our politicians are really concerned about the future, they've got a funny way of talking about it.
How to negotiate the tricky territory of ‘fascist music’
Donald Trump has been accused of using a 'fascist' Puccini aria at rallies. But labelling this music as fascist is deeply problematic.
In Spain as in Syria, people fight in foreign wars for many reasons, or sometimes none at all
Comparisons of foreign volunteers in Syria to the International Brigades of Spain are apt, but not for the reasons you think.
Why calls for ‘unity’ are not enough: Look at the 1930s and 1940s
Previous efforts to cement national cohesion offer a model but also, says a historian, a warning.
The novel and play that predicted Donald Trump’s rise – and countered a swell of Great Depression demagoguery
Sinclair Lewis' 1935 novel 'It Can't Happen Here,' which described the rise of an American dictator, was turned into a play seen by over 500,000 people.
Why is it so hard to get a copy of Hitler’s Mein Kampf?
Printers have been overwhelmed with orders for the first edition of the text to be published in Germany since 1945.
First foreign band to play North Korea is famed for its ‘fascism’
The Slovenian band Laibach are best known for their use of fascist iconography – but they're far more subversive than this might indicate.
Speaking with: Jason Dittmer on superheroes and fascism
Speaking with Jason Dittmer on superheroes and fascism.
America's flirtations with fascism in the 1930s and the influence of the Second World War gave rise to nationalistic, quasi-fascist superheroes who are still relevant and popular today.
Forgotten resistance: the Italian freedom fighters dropped from our history books
Everyone learns about the French resistance but what about the freedom fighters across the Alps?
Federal dreams aren’t just for Juncker – the far right has long had a pan-European flavour
The fear of a federal Europe has eurosceptics riled once again. David Cameron is increasingly dialling up his rhetoric in response to Jean-Claude Juncker‘s candidacy for head of the European Commission…
Both Sarkozy and Hollande are victims of the French culture of scandal
In late February 2014, it was discovered that Nicolas Sarkozy’s close aide during his presidency, Patrick Buisson, had secretly recorded hundreds of hours of conversations with the then-president and others…
World War II symbolism runs deep in Ukraine-Russia standoff
Many of the images of pro-Russian demonstrators in Ukraine, from Crimea to Donetsk, have shown them wearing black-and-orange-striped ribbons. The symbolism here is opaque to most Western observers, it…
Creeping towards fascism? Croatia tests European ideals
Europe is filled with historical fault lines – the Greek-Anatolian, the Balkans, Iberian and central Europe. The European experiment, managed through the ever clunky apparatus of the European Union, has…
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