Remembering Fascism: Learning From the Past

I am just old enough to remember those chilling and ominous days of Germany's descent from decency to Nazi barbarism, to borrow the words of the distinguished scholar of German history Fritz Stern. He tells us that he has the future of the United States in mind when he reviews "a historic process in which resentment against a disenchanted secular world found deliverance in the ecstatic escape of unreason." Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Apr. 20, 2010

Chomsky's retrospective should give us a historical perspective from which to view the present ecstatic escape into unreason by the disenchanted disinformed.

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