Tag Archives: fascism

A Europeanized Republican Party: Is Donald Trump America’s Jean Le Pen?

The below quote startled me. It comes from a conservative writer who locates the signal in the noise as to what Donald Trump really means for American politics: the Europeanization of the Republican Party. In other words, Trump is riding … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | 3 Comments

The Muslim Brotherhood and Religious Fascism

This is being reported by the AP today: Mustafa Hegazy, a political adviser to interim President Adly Mansour, told a press conference Saturday that […] Egyptians took to the streets on June 30 – the day that led to Morsi’s ouster … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 9 Comments

The New Hitler Youth of India

With India’s rise on the global stage, it would seem valuable to know the attitudes of its most elite educated teenagers, and Dilip D’Sousa at the Daily Beast reports that a not inconsiderable number of them harbor fascist sentiments: My … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments

The Neoconservative War on Nihilism (and Thomas Jefferson)

Harper’s website has a fascinating interview with C. Bradley Thompson on neoconservatism and his new book (with Yaron Brook) about it. Although, in the interview, the phrase “Herderian nationalism” is not used for neoconservatism by Thompson, he strongly implies that this is exactly what … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Chris Hedges on the Tea Birchers

In a recent TruthDig essay, Chris Hedges (I think accurately) sizes up the Herderian Tea Party movement in America, and where it is moving us: There is a yearning by tens of millions of Americans, lumped into a diffuse and fractious movement, … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Maureen Dowd on Some Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Anti-Muslim Crowds

In a recent New York Times column, Maureen Dowd tracks some of the Herderite stupidity swirling around the so-called ground zero mosque: The dispute over the Islamic center has tripped some deep national lunacy. The unbottled anger and suspicion concerning ground zero show … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Head Scarves, Mosque Hysteria, and the New Antisemitism

Above: a sixteenth century British woman wearing a wimple. Source: Wikipedia Commons. The wimple appears in the King James Version of the Bible as one of the civilizing garments that women wear (Isaiah 3:22). Isaiah suggests that it would be … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 16 Comments

Newt Gingrich, Kristallnacht, and the Ground Zero Mosque

The so-called Ground Zero mosque is actually blocks from Ground Zero and blocked from view at Ground Zero by larger buildings. But never mind. Herderite Republicans like Newt Gingrich smell blood in the water and are earnestly rallying their Tea Party Brown Shirts … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 13 Comments

“Improvised Explosive Devices”: Bryan Fischer Says No to the Ground-Zero Mosque—and All Mosques

Here’s Bryan Fischer, a Herderian Christian nationalist from the American Family Association, attributing to American Muslims collective guilt for 9-11 and calling all mosques in America “improvised explosive devices”: Permits should not be granted to build even one more mosque in the … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The Ground-Zero Mosque: Barack Obama Rejects Muslim Collective Guilt for 9-11 and Affirms American Values

President Barack Obama does not oppose the building of the Cordoba Mosque a few blocks down from the former site of the World Trade Center. And this is why I support the man. When it counts, Barack Obama is a man of the Enlightenment. … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 9 Comments

Glenn Beck says that the Jews killed Jesus

Isn’t Glenn Beck a lovely human being? Here what he said on Tuesday about Jesus and the Jews: Jesus conquered death. He wasn’t victimized. He chose to give his life. He did have a choice. If he was a victim, … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Nietzsche’s checkmate: does atheism lead to totalitarianism?

A.C. Grayling, an atheist author that I tend to otherwise love, calls the idea that atheism gave birth to communism and fascism a theist “canard.” But, as an agnostic who has been doing a good deal of Nietzsche reading lately, I’m not … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 15 Comments

Muslim assaults cartoonist on a university campus

But don’t call his violence Islamofascism. This reported today by AP: A Swedish artist who angered Muslims by depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a dog said Tuesday he was assaulted while giving a lecture at a university. Lars Vilks told The Associated Press a … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 12 Comments

Rush Limbaugh and a Disturbing New Authoritarian Phenomenon: The Brick Throwing “Patriot”

Talk about pushing the Overton Window to the right. Yesterday Rush Limbaugh (who calls himself a “Christian”) equated Barack Obama with Hitler and put up this rather uncharitable battle cry against Democrats: We need to defeat these bastards. We need to wipe … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Anti-Gay Stridency: A Dark Spirit Settles over American Conservatism

The far right’s gay baiting is getting more strident: I find the above image and the video below enormously troubling. There is a shamelessness to these two conservatives’ bigotry that almost takes your breath away. If fascism ever comes to … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

21st Century Russia: Early 1930s Germany Redux?

A sobering documentary on 21st century Russia. Worth watching in full. We live in dangerous times. Here’s part 1 of 6:

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments

What Did Friedrich Nietzsche Take from Charles Darwin?

Answer: A lot. Most specifically, contingency (chance), and the implications of contingency upon meaning. Prior to Charles Darwin there were a lot of 19th century people who believed that evolution must have occurred in some form, but they thought about … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 21 Comments

Beck Zedong!

Glenn Beck’s got a one hundred year plan (oh, shit): “We need to start thinking like the Chinese.” In other words, Glenn Beck thinks that focused, insurgent, belligerent, fanatically committed mass movement Maoism—with its disciplined cell groups, ideological purity, and relentless propaganda—is the right … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: The View from Anne Frank’s Window (July 22, 1941)

Amsterdam’s Anne Frank House recently put on YouTube rare footage of Anne Frank leaning out of a window to get a look at a newly married couple in her neighborhood: And here’s Anne Frank, at a younger age, in a group photo: … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 19 Comments

In Case You Missed It

This past summer Arizona Reverend Steven Anderson was spreading the love. This from AP: In his August 16th sermon, Anderson quoted Old Testament passages about the kind of people that God hates, and said they apply to President Obama. Anderson told his … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment