Comparisons between Donald Trump’s political movement and Nazi Germany often focus almost entirely on Trump himself. Is Trump like Hitler? Does his rhetoric resemble fascism? Could the United States become an authoritarian state? Those questions matter, but they can obscure one of history’s most important lessons: Hitler did not transform Germany alone. He required ideological architects who...
The idea that Adolf Hitler still has admirers in the twenty-first century seems impossible to many people. The Holocaust remains one of the best-documented atrocities in human history. Tens of millions of people died during World War II. Nazi ideology led to the systematic murder of approximately six million Jews, alongside millions of Romani people, disabled people, Slavic civilians, LGBTQ+...
The answer depends on whether we’re asking a historical question, a political question, or a scientific one. It has become increasingly common to hear the claim that capitalism, patriarchy, and white nationalism are inseparable. For some people, they are described as three parts of the same system. Others reject the idea entirely, arguing that free markets have nothing to do with gender or...
