How new fascism operates
Summary
Historian Marcy Shore delivers a lecture at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, arguing that current political trends in the US and Russia exhibit classic fascist traits like polarization and dehumanizing language. She contrasts 20th-century totalitarianism with modern "post-truth" regimes that undermine objective reality through disinformation and cynical disinhibition. Shore discusses the dangers of mythologizing the past and the moral compromises forced upon citizens by authoritarian systems. The episode concludes with a conversation on the challenges of resistance, the exhaustion of p…
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