Fascism

Giorgia Meloni has won and will be the first woman Prime Minister of Italy. She will also be "the most far-right premier since Mussolini", CNN said after the rightwing Brothers of Italy (FdI) leader won Sunday's general election. This anticipated,...

The Calandra Italian American Institute released a message in light of the upcoming International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27th. The Institute has joined Italian historian Patrizia Guarnieri and her team of researchers in their mission to gather data on Italian...

Mostly neglected by history, Teruzzi was always close to Mussolini, physically and ideologically. The enforcer of discipline among the Fascist Blackshirt militia, he played a pivotal role in the march on Rome in 1922 which brought Mussolini to power. In...

In Italiano Donald Trump talks and tweets like a Fascist and in the end plans and acts like a Fascist. Almost four years ago, when he was inaugurated as president, we still had doubts about him being a Fascist, after...

Unable to denounce the Constitutionally-granted right to peaceable assembly and free speech (although some have tried), the reactionary forces in America have constructed a straw man in Antifa. The Trump administration is now threatening to classify Antifa as a terrorist...

Professor Urbinati recently contributed to the political debate with two important volumes: Utopia Europa, published by Castelvecchi, and Me, the People. How Populism Transforms Democracy for Harvard University Press (coming soon). We met her in her office at the prestigious...

At the Film Forum in New York from April 3-18.