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How about that: fascism has a definition after all, and isn’t just a term for whatever people happen to dislike. In his new book, Paul Gottfried traces the meaning of the word and how it’s been used over the years as a polemical device in ideological battles.

About the Guest

Paul Gottfried is professor emeritus of humanities at Elizabethtown College and a Guggenheim recipient.

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Book Discussed

Fascism: The Career of a Concept

Other Selected Books by the Guest

Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt: Toward a Secular Theocracy

Conservatism in America: Making Sense of the American Right

The Strange Death of Marxism: The European Left in the New Millennium

After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State

Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America

Previous Appearances

Ep. 574 Neocon Says Word Neoconservative Is Outdated Now; I Remain Unmoved

Ep. 496 Wilsonianism: The Legacy That Won’t Die

Ep. 386 What Fascism Is, and Why It Isn’t Just a Name for Everything People May Oppose

Ep. 87 World War I: Sleepwalk to Suicide

Listener Website Mentioned

Logical-Anarchy.com

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