The Legacy of Red Vienna
From 1919 to 1934, socialist Vienna was guided by the “critical rationalism” and the pluralist, collaborative ethos of its thinkers and planners, whose influence endured long after they lost power.
November 21, 2024 issue
Letting It All Hang Out
Disinhibition will be the order of the day in Donald Trump’s America.
November 7, 2024
Life in the Ruins
Two new books consider the delusion of the human quest to be free from the constraints of nature.
November 21, 2024 issue
The Return of Trump—I
On losers, fear, the Supreme Court, the end of the FDR era, antisystemic times, and words without consequences.
November 8, 2024
The Flailing Superpower
The spectacle of America on the global stage
November 7, 2024 issue
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Christopher R. Browning: The Suffocation of Democracy“As a historian specializing in the Holocaust, Nazi Germany, and Europe in the era of the world wars, I have been repeatedly asked about the degree to which the current situation in the United States resembles the interwar period and the rise of fascism in Europe. I would note several troubling similarities and one important but equally troubling difference.”
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