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Aug 19, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
This is the second of three essays I’ve done on histories of American interwar fascism.
The first was this one, which came out at end of June, on why Trumpism can (and in my view should) be construed as American fascism. nybooks.com/daily/2020/06/…
This second one, about to come out with the @TheTLS, connects the story to Roth’s Plot Against America (and the new HBO adaptation).
The third one, coming out soon with @NewStatesman, takes the argument in a different direction, toward crowds, spectacle, and entertainment.
All 3 start with the same central facts and debates about the relationship between the Klan, American white supremacism, and European fascism, and then each branches out in different directions from that shared start, bringing in different aspects of the story.
Will be very interested to see how they compare in readers’ minds … (I will, of course, not choose a favorite from among my three babies.)
My @TheTLS essay on American interwar fascism and The Plot Against America is now up. the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-p…
Pleased to say the final of my three essays this summer on American fascism is now up at @NewStatesman. Each of them starts with the same key historical facts and then moves in different directions. This one has more novels and films! 🥳👍
I would love to think that this might be my final entry on American fascism ever. But I have a terrible feeling that history is not going to afford me that luxury.

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Jul 23, 2022
Today I published a new essay on a topic - the history of what was once known as "race suicide" - I've been researching for a while, and I thought some people might be interested in some of the back story and research context. 1🧵
The editors have headlined this essay a "secret history" of abortion debates in America. It's not really secret, but it's also certainly not part of the popular understanding of abortion in the US a century ago. 2 theguardian.com/books/2022/jul…
There have been passing references to "race suicide" in several responses I've seen to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, describing it (accurately) as an early iteration of Great Replacement Theory. Most of them attribute the phrase to a eugenicist sociologist, Edward A. Ross. 3
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Actual announcement on actual British train: "Our card reader is not working so we can't take payments. Please do not come to the buffet car, there is no buffet service. If you're in standard, there will be an at-seat trolley service, but it won't be able to sell you anything."
Such a perfect metaphor for British life today.
I'm in First (weekend upgrade, don't @ me), where trolley service is 'complimentary.' Attendant just offered me a breakfast box, I asked what was in it. She snapped, 'I don't know, they change it every week you'll just have to take it and find out.'

Metaphors piling up.
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Jul 7, 2022
🎉🎊 Today is publication day for my new book The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells. 🥳
Publication day is always dramatic for any author. It represents the culmination of many months, and often, especially with heavily researched books, years of hard work. The Wrath to Come has taken me 3 years to write.
But the publication of The Wrath to Come has been more than usually dramatic, to say the least. 😳
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Feb 14, 2022
Yesterday, my friend Prof Suzannah Lipscomb, whom many of you know as @sixteenthCgirl, was featured in a Sunday Times article, calling for a women's prize for nonfiction writing, akin to the @WomensPrize for fiction.
In the interview she calls out the "authority gap," as described by @MASieghart - that women are statistically and demonstrably less likely to be taken seriously when they speak and write than men.
In the piece, she is described as "Suzannah Lipscomb, the academic and author," and quoted saying, "People think women lack authority." The @ST_Newsroom then adds that Lipscomb is a professor emerita. Nowhere in the piece does it grant her the title "Professor."
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Dec 29, 2021
So @BBCNews has decided that the expert witness they need on the Maxwell trial is Alan Dershowitz. Who has taken the opportunity to say that it shows how accusations against him and Prince Andrew are wrong.
I’d really like to understand how @BBCNews treats as an expert witness someone who literally admits without being asked that he is among the people implicated in the case. “The question is when will Giuffre be charged rather than her charging people like Prince Andrew and me.” 🤯
I am not a lawyer, so I can’t comment on the legality. But journalistically, he should not have been presented as an impartial expert witness only to say the verdict vindicates him, personally.
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"America First" movements have been claiming to protect America's uniquely "Anglo-Saxon" identity for a century. A thread.
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The phrase America First was popularized in 1915, when Woodrow Wilson used it in a speech to the nativist DAR, urging that Americans subject "hyphenate" Americans (German-American, Italian-American, Irish-American) to loyalty tests.
1915 was the same year the second Klan was born, thanks largely to the popularity of The Birth of a Nation, released earlier that year, but also spurred by the lynching of Jewish Leo Frank that summer.
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