Fascism for Our Time
A special issue of Public Seminar featuring Jan-Werner Mueller, David A. Bell, Natasha Lennard, Mitchel Abidor, Mischa Gabowitsch, and Anton Shekhovtsov
The essays gathered here grow out of a series of conversations between James Miller at Public Seminar and Simon Garnett at Eurozine, starting early this summer, at the time the protests against the murder of George Floyd were erupting. We both were struck by what we saw as certain limitations to the discourses on fascism and anti-fascism in both Europe and the United States, and by convergences as well as divergences between them.
Simon Garnet and James Miller
Special Issue: Fascism for Our Time
Simon Garnett and James Miller, “Fascism for Our Time? On the use and abuse of political concepts.” (October 15, 2020)
Jan-Werner Mueller, “Far-Right Populism is Bad Enough: On fascism, populism, and democracy.” (October 15, 2020)
David A. Bell, “Fascism or Caesarism? How Napoleon, not Hitler, exemplifies an enduring threat to modern democracies.” (August 27, 2020)
Natasha Lennard and James Miller, “On Fascism, Non-fascism, and Antifa: Natasha Lennard in conversation with James Miller.” (October 15, 2020)
Mitchel Abidor, “Why Street Fighting Is No Way to Resist Fascism: The French left’s popular front strategy from the 1930s is a better way to resist the far right
Mischa Gabowitsch, “Varieties of Antifascism: Russian notes towards a global debate.” (October 15, 2020)
Anton Shekhovtsov, “Ghosts of Weimar: Is factual accuracy even the point when it comes to the discourse of antifascism?” (October 15, 2020)
Politics
Carlton F.W. Larson, “Did the Militia Group that Planned to Kidnap the Michigan Governor Commit Treason? They stand accused of hoping to trigger `a civil war leading to societal collapse.’” (October 14, 2020)
Rose Thomas Bannister, “The Question About Religion Someone Should Have Asked Amy Coney Barrett: This nomination brings a long-cherished Christian political project to fruition.” (October 15, 2020)
Ronald Aronson, “Last Call for White Supremacy: Trump’s attack on democracy.” (October 13, 2020)
Our Columnists
Heather Cox Richardson, “It’s…It’s…His Emails! As voters stream to the polls, the Trump campaign frantically distracts from the GOP’s attack on democracy.” (October 15, 2020)
John Stoehr, “How to Hold the Republican Party Accountable for Trump: His ascent to the presidency was not an anomaly.” (October 12, 2020)