Mussolini

Face It: CPAC Was a Mussolini Moment

by Will Bunch

After Trump's CPAC speech promised that he'd be an instrument of retribution against his followers' enemies, it's time to stop tiptoeing around the historic parallels, writes columnist Will Bunch. 

The Americans Who Embraced Mussolini

Katy Hull's book looks to four American fascist sympathizers to conclude that the appeal of fascism reflected anxieties about how the United States could function as a world power and connect communitarian values with national progress. 

Il Donald

by Anne Applebaum

Although Mussolini's displays of pomp seem ridiculous, they are understandable as theater, in which the leader associated himself with symbols of Italian greatness. There is no contemporary comparison to be made....

What We Don't Understand About Fascism

by Victoria de Grazia

It is less useful to draw comparisons between today's right-wing politics and past fascist parties than it is to understand how broad crisis in society resembles the conditions from which fascism arose. 

What Mussolini and Hitler's Rise to Power Can Teach Us about Opposing Trump: Unite, Unite!

by Walter G. Moss

The luxury of voting third party or not voting at all is no longer a sensible option for anyone wishing for a USA we can cherish.   

A House in the Mountains by Caroline Moorehead review – a riveting tale of resistance in Turin

by Tobias Jones

A gripping narrative within A House in the Mountains by Caroline Moorehead of four extraordinary women who delivered intelligence, letters and weaponry in the cause of resisting the German occupation of Italy

Autocrats do not need a majority to destroy democracy. A divided opposition helps them.

by Claudia Koonz

Trump is not a despot. But neither were Mussolini and Hitler early on.

After 100 years, Mussolini’s fascist party is a reminder of the fragility of freedom

by Richard Gunderman

People all over the world need to remember that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

A New Book About Mussolini Is Provoking a Debate Over His Legacy

Antonio Scurati, the author of “M,” sees his book as an anti-fascist history lesson disguised as a novel. Others disagree.

“I am a Nationalist” – Donald Trump apes Mussolini in Drive to destroy America

by Juan Cole

He is, of course, saying this to shore up support among white nationalists.

There Are Even More Parallels to the ‘30s and ‘40’s than You Suspected

by Luke Reader

History does not repeat itself. Nor does it rhyme. But it does give us insight. We should pay attention.

‘I’m fascinated by Mussolini’

by Nicholas Farrell

Steve Bannon on fascism, populism and everything in between

The fascist movement that has brought Mussolini back to the mainstream

Italy’s CasaPound has been central to normalising fascism again in the country of its birth. Now they’re trying to enter parliament.

Trump is no Hitler – he’s a Mussolini, says Oxford historian

There’s good news and bad news in parallels from the 1930s, warns Professor Margaret MacMillan, outgoing warden at St Antony’s College.

Historian Richard Carr reveals Chaplin’s praise for Mussolini

A new biography released later this month sets out the true nature of screen comedian Charlie Chaplin’s relationship with fascism – one which was far from black and white.

The Scary Parallels Between Trump and Mussolini

by Mark Bickhard

And between Fascism and Trumpism.

How the media normalized Hitler and Mussolini

by John Broich

They treated Hitler as a joke and praised Mussolini for restoring the economy.

Mussolini's Italian hometown plans fascism museum

Predappio is a pilgrimage site for far-right militants and people nostalgic for the Mussolini era.

Mussolini's birthplace in Italy to get a fascist museum

A museum dedicated to the history of fascism will be created in Predappio, Italy, the birthplace of dictator Benito Mussolini, Mayor Giorgio Frassineti announced.

Italian forces in WW2 were not soft and Mussolini wasn't a clown, British historian claims

The historian says that Benito Mussolini was Adolf Hitler's 'role model'