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Friday, January 11, 2008 12:00 AM

"We're all fascists now"

An interview with conservative pundit Jonah Goldberg, who argues that fascism is left-wing, not right-wing, and that contemporary liberals are fascism's intellectual offspring.
By Alex Koppelman

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  • Friday, January 11, 2008 01:31 PM

    "The only points he scores are with Brave New World and 1984--both of which were novels."

    What has the genre of those works to do with their usefulness in supporting or rejecting arguments?

    —jdsmith Read jdsmith's other letters

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