How fascist is the “brand identity” of your country’s leader?
(If you are familiar with these ideas, click here to go straight to the survey…) Umberto Eco was born in 1932, in Fascist Italy. He lived the first 13 years of his life under Fascism, memorizing the speeches of Mussolini in the classroom by day, and listening in a darkened room to the forbidden Radio London by night. In 1995, he published an essay in The New York Review of Books in which he attempted to clarify […]