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The Second Generation of School Shootings
The fear that overtook us that day in 1988 was unfamiliar to most Americans. Now all too many know how it feels.
by
Sarah Churchwell
via
The Atlantic
on
May 23, 2023
The Party of Lincoln Ignores His Warning Against Mobocracy
“There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law,” declared the man who would be America’s sixteenth president.
by
Sarah Churchwell
via
New York Review of Books
on
January 15, 2021
The Oracle of Our Unease
The enchanted terms in which F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed modern America still blind us to how scathingly he judged it.
by
Sarah Churchwell
via
New York Review of Books
on
September 24, 2020
The Return of American Fascism
How a legacy of violent nationalism haunts the republic in the age of Trump.
by
Sarah Churchwell
via
New Statesman
on
September 2, 2020
American Fascism: It Has Happened Here
Americans of the interwar period were perfectly clear about one fact we have lost sight of today: all fascism is indigenous, by definition.
by
Sarah Churchwell
via
New York Review of Books
on
June 22, 2020
American Immigration: A Century of Racism
On Daniel Okrent's "The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America."
by
Sarah Churchwell
via
New York Review of Books
on
September 12, 2019
‘The Lehman Trilogy’ and Wall Street’s Debt to Slavery
If the play holds up a mirror to our moment, it is by registering slavery in a peripheral glance only to look away.
by
Sarah Churchwell
via
New York Review of Books
on
June 11, 2019
How "America First" Ruined the "American Dream"
Author Sarah Churchwell on the entangled history of America’s most loaded phrases.
by
Sarah Churchwell
,
Sean Illing
via
Vox
on
October 22, 2018
End of the American Dream? The Dark History of 'America First'
When he promised to put America first in his inaugural speech, Donald Trump drew on a slogan with a long and sinister history.
by
Sarah Churchwell
via
The Guardian
on
April 21, 2018
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Behold America
: The Entangled History of "America First" and "the American Dream"
Sarah Churchwell
2018
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When Is a Nazi Salute Not a Nazi Salute?
Were the celebrities in this 1941 photograph making a patriotic gesture or paying their respects to Hitler?
by
Matt Seaton
via
New York Review of Books
on
July 25, 2020
When Nazis Took Manhattan
In 1939, 20,000 American Nazis rallied in New York. It was billed as a "Pro-American" rally, but championed Hitler and fascism.
by
Nellie Gilles
,
Sarah Kate Kramer
,
Joe Richman
via
Radio Diaries
on
February 20, 2019
Loaded Phrases
The long, entwined history of America First and the American dream.
by
Kevin M. Kruse
via
The Nation
on
November 21, 2018
The “Fascist” With a Popular Majority
Donald Trump’s victory will inevitably reopen the “fascism debate.” But does a populist whose appeal cuts across diverse groups truly fit the fascist profile?
by
Tristan Hughes
via
Jacobin
on
November 19, 2024
Why We Can’t Stop Arguing About Whether Trump Is a Fascist
In a new book, “Did it Happen Here?,” scholars debate what the F-word conceals and what it reveals.
by
Andrew Marantz
via
The New Yorker
on
March 27, 2024
Who Was the Real Marilyn Monroe?
"Blonde," a heavily fictionalized film by Andrew Dominik, explores the star's life and legend in a narrative that's equal parts glamorous and disturbing.
by
Grant Wong
via
Smithsonian
on
September 26, 2022
Why Trump Isn't a Fascist
The storming of the Capitol on 6 January was not a coup. But American democracy is still in danger.
by
Richard J. Evans
via
New Statesman
on
January 13, 2021
