Peter Berard is a historian, writer, and organizer. He lives in Watertown, Massachusetts, and blogs at toomuchberard.wordpress.com.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Anti-Extremism Versus Anti-Fascism
Two new books lay out the differences between anti-extremism and anti-fascism....
Why Populism Isn’t a Gateway Drug to Fascism
Peter Berard considers “A Brief History of Fascist Lies,” a new book by Federico Finchelstein....
The Dark Forest and Its Discontents: Cixin Liu’s “Death’s End”
Peter Berard reviews the final book of Cixin Liu's "Remembrance of Earth’s Past" trilogy....
The Internet Wars Come to Print
A new book on the internet memes and curious logic of modern agitprop conservatism....
“Foul, Small-Minded Deities”: On Giorgio De Maria’s “The Twenty Days of Turin”
Peter Berard explores the haunting implications of “The Twenty Days of Turin” by Giorgio De Maria....
Neal Stephenson’s Ideal Forms
Neal Stephenson combines the earthly and the ideal to create a nerdish homebrew 21st-century Platonism....
