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Liberalism and the Spectre of Inverted Totalitarianism

Henry Heller Canadian Dimension
What is paradoxical is that U.S. imperial ideology happens to be not fascism but an all-encompassing and intolerant liberalism refitted for rationalizing military and political expansion.

Ultra Violence

Nelson Lichtenstein Dissent
Rachel Maddow’s podcast tells the story of American Nazis in the 1940s. But the era’s real and lasting authoritarian danger came from the spectacular growth of a national security state.

The Fed, the Supreme Court, and Their Legitimacy

Max Moran American Prospect/The Revolving Door Project
The government’s least democratic branches are incompetent and corrupt because they are unaccountable. James Madison would not be surprised…
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