Out of the Ordinary: How Everyday Life Inspired a Nation and How It Can Again

Peter Berard is a writer and organizer living in Watertown, Massachusetts. You can find more of his work at peterberard.substack.com.

Peter Berard

The Everyday, Between Revolution and Reaction

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

Professor Matthew Feldman is a specialist on fascist ideology and the far-right in Europe and the USA. He has written widely on these subjects, for both academic and general audiences. He has long researched the interaction between politics and faith in the modern world, and has taught these subjects for some two decades to school, undergraduate and postgraduate students. An Emeritus Professor in the History of Modern Ideas at Teesside University, in 2013 Professor Feldman led Britain’s first unit dedicated to analysis of radical right extremism, the Centre for Fascist, Anti-fascist and Post-fascist Studies (CFAPS), and prior to that, directed the Radicalism and New Media Group at the University of Northampton. Professor Feldman is the author or editor of more than 20 books, including three monographs, and more than 40 articles or academic book chapters.

Matthew Feldman

Letter to the Editor: Matthew Feldman Responds to Peter Berard

Hate in the Homeland

Culture Warlords

Anti-Extremism Versus Anti-Fascism

A Brief History of Fascist Lies

Why Populism Isn’t a Gateway Drug to Fascism

Death’s End

The Dark Forest and Its Discontents: Cixin Liu’s “Death’s End”

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — Frank Herbert

Kill All Normies

The Internet Wars Come to Print

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

The Twenty Days of Turin

“Foul, Small-Minded Deities”: On Giorgio De Maria’s “The Twenty Days of Turin”

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

Neal Stephenson’s Ideal Forms

Peter Berard is a writer and organizer living in Watertown, Massachusetts. You can find more of his work at peterberard.substack.com.