Au début du trumpisme, l'historien américain Robert Paxton, grand spécialiste du régime de Vichy, était réticent à le comparer au fascisme. Aujourd'hui, il n'a plus d'hésitations : "c'est exactement ça" nytimes.com/2024/10/23/mag…

So glad to contribute a few quotes to this superb essay by Elisabeth Zerofsky on the history of fascism and the complicated wealth of analogies it provides for understanding our present moment. Among other things, this essay is homage to a great historical mind. nytimes.com/2024/10/23/mag…

L''historien américain Robert Paxton, grand spécialiste du régime de Vichy, était réticent à comparer le trumpisme au fascisme. Aujourd'hui, il n'a plus d'hésitations : "c'est exactement ça". Article de l'excellente Elisabeth Zerofsky à lire dans le The New York Times en attendant le dénouement.

Maybe the end of history is not Marxist socialism, or Fukuyamian liberal democracy, but conservative nationalist populism of the working classes.

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As far as I know Oren Cass is the only intellectual in Vance world to acknowledge that one of their top policy objectives improved more under Biden than Trump nytimes.com/2024/11/09/opi…

"Could it be that the interests of the working class don’t align with the interests of what is known as 'labor'?" Don't agree with the conclusion of this piece but at least it begins to formulate the right questions compactmag.com/article/why-a-…

Do we really need Freud to understand the desire to dominate? How about starting with Nietzsche theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

"What we have, for now, is just the sense of an ending, the realization that the former world has passed away." Ross Douthat you'll be happy to know that I'm writing an entire book on this topic nytimes.com/2024/11/16/opi…

Huh

Beloved while she was Chancellor, Angela Merkel is getting a rethink as Germany faces crisis after crisis. In her long awaited autobiography she explains — sort of, a little. My review for The New York Times nytimes.com/2024/11/26/boo…

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what about Indonesia?

such a fun piece by Elisabeth Zerofsky, with everything you could want in a feature: Georgian gangsters, clever heists, rich Russians, and, naturally, post-colonial theory... economist.com/1843/2025/08/2…

Is the Russian state behind a recent rash of rare book thefts? Read Elisabeth Zerofsky's great new piece digging in to the mystery: economist.com/1843/2025/08/2…

Great piece by Elisabeth Zerofsky. We are accustomed to the geopolitics of Pushkin statues - those that stand and those that fall. We get introduced here to a tangled story of Pushkin texts, disappearing from libraries, becoming contraband and crossing borders. economist.com/1843/2025/08/2…