"Are the protesters “little Robespierres,” thirsting to tear up the constitutional guarantee of free speech? Are they pathetic products of lifelong mollycoddling, who just can’t cope with challenging ideas?"
Stability can only be assured by the reimposition of order by Damascus. The folks in Washington, Paris and Ankara might not like that, but they are not the ones facing a future of anarchy.
In some ways, it makes him more dangerous than if he were a fascist, because it disguises the swastika looming in the shadow of the flamboyant orange hair.
In a moving piece in the NY Review of Books Harvard’s Drew Gilpin Faust says that a knowledge of history can help Americans grapple with the legacy of racism.
