Dyneslines

A fundamental question, which admits of no easy answer, is this. Is fascism some sort of unified phenomenon - a genus with many national components or species - or is it a much looser amalgam, best studied only in separate contexts?
Clearly this issue pertains to outlier manifestations, such as the Peronist movement in Argentina. And it also arises at the opposite pole with regard to the egregious German phenomenon, Nazism, which may rank either as essentially the intensification...

I spent a number of years in the disagreeable task of documenting homophobia, concluding that because of its multiple strands it remained hard to extirpate. I laid out these conclusions in my book The Homophobic Mind. It occurred to me that a similar...

So. While I was brought up with no religious affiliation, in my late teens I flirted with with the idea of converting to Catholiicism, a common trend in those days.  Luckily, I averted this mistake but came, for a time, to think that this religion and...

The present contentious situation in this country is one of the worst I can remember. Since I have been around a long time now, this is saying something,
Yet there is a theory, going back to the 19th century, that American history witnesses an oscillation of two successive principles: strife vs. harmony. The time of the War of 1812 was a bitterly contentious one....