Paxton chose to study European history to get away from American ... Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a historian of Italian Fascism at New York University, says that the column’s importance lay not only in ...
Fascism is now routinely used to describe conservatives, but that’s only because of what Tom Wolfe called “the greatest hoax of modern history.” The original fascists were leftists. Benito Mussolini ...
David Kertzer, a Brown University professor and Italian historian ... The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe.” David Clay Large, a senior fellow at the University ...
Waking up to the threat It has taken the sorry remnants of the U.S. press a while to grasp that America has a long history of active fascism. The U.S. auto magnate Henry Ford and the aviator ...