The Fascists Learn From Each Other. So Must We.

In three elections in a row, it has become clear that the American majority is anti-fascist.

Is There Hope for America? A Socratic Dialogue with my Dad

Since MAGA never cemented its grip on power, the totalitarian charisma that attached to Trump is fading, and doesn’t seem like it would be transferrable to somebody like DeSantis.

Extra! Extra! Nazis on the Run at Stalingrad!

It is possible that we have reached a parallel global turning point in our generation’s struggle against fascism.

Are Losing Political Campaigns Always Useless?

People who think you lose one or two elections and you’re done really don’t understand the basic nature of democracy, or American political history.

Elections Alone Neither Install Nor Prevent Tyranny

Everything depends how the non-totalitarian majority of Americans react to MAGA “wins.”

On the Persistence of Resistance

We actually have no choice but to stand and fight, whether in America, in Israel, in India, in Italy, in Hungary, or anywhere else threatened by the new Nationalist-Populist fascism, which is to say, virtually everywhere.

An Open Letter to the President of Israel

Some months ago, anonymous Nazis threatened me and my family because I defended teaching the history of the Holocaust on the Internet.

How the Light Gets In

We are all locked in the out-of-control passenger jet of history, and we must ask ourselves, do we resign ourselves to the seemingly inevitable smash and let all those distractions outrage and entertain us until that moment, or do we take the small actions that lie within our small power?

To Beat the New Fascism, Close the Gemeinschaft Gap

The gap between poor old impersonal democracy and people’s yearnings for community has grown into a Gemeinschaft gap the size of the Centralia coal seam fire.

Can America Actually Be Saved?

Of course the president urged his listeners to “vote, vote, vote!” What the hell was he supposed to do, urge us to take up arms against our fellow citizens?