fascism
Director Raoul Peck, like his subject George Orwell, encourages critical thinking and urges us to consider how best to resist the strengthening forces of tyranny.
This wake-up call — what will artists be asked to do to please the powers-that-be? — is also a good read.
A pair of documentaries featured in this year’s Arlington International Film Festival take a cold look at the death cult of fascism — past, present, and to come.
Practical handbook, compendium of theory, or history of an American tradition? A little of each… but enough of any?
José Luis Trueba Lara’s anti-popularist history is the truest kind of people’s history.
Arts Commentary: Superman, Spider-Man, and the American Art of Slugging Nazis
William Nicholas Love’s punch heard round the internet belongs to a long comic-book history of fighting homegrown fascism—from Captain America to “The Clan of the Fiery Cross.”
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