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  • Trump: The Choice We Face | by Masha Gessen | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

    My family supplies other examples of this slippery slope of collaboration. Take my own. In 2012, I was working as the editor-in-chief of a popular science magazine called Vokrug Sveta when Vladimir Putin, who fancies himself an explorer and a nature conservationist, took a liking to the publication. His administration launched a kind of friendly takeover of the magazine, one that the publisher could not refuse. I found myself in meetings with the Russian Geographic Society, of […]

  • Umberto Eco’s Eternal Fascism: A Condensed Version

    Umberto Eco was born in 1932, in Fascist Italy. He lived the first 13 years of his life under Fascism. In 1995, he published an essay in The New York Review of Books in which he attempted to clarify the meaning of meaning of “fascism:” Fascism became an all-purpose term because one can eliminate from a fascist regime one or more features, and it will still be recognizable as fascist. Take away imperialism from fascism and you […]

David Brendan O'Meara on substack

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