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Adolf Hitler
March 5, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Meet North Carolina’s GOP Governor Candidate: A Hitler-Quoting Extremist
North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson, the leading Republican candidate for governor, thinks quoting Hitler shouldn’t be so taboo.
November 14, 2023
Alex Shephard
The Two Sides of Donald Trump Are Equally Bad
The former president is making news for his ramped-up authoritarian rhetoric, but his embrace of the Republican Party’s most unpopular ideas shouldn’t be ignored.
July 5, 2023
Tori Otten
North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Calls for Lifting Taboo on Quoting Hitler
Mark Robinson made the declaration at the far-right Moms for Liberty summit.
June 22, 2022
Timothy Noah
I Don’t Give a Rat’s Ass About Trump’s “State of Mind”
He may well be incapable of feeling guilt. So was Mao. And that’s a defense?
September 11, 2020
MagazineAdam Kirsch
The Problem With Redemption for Wagner
Willa Cather, Thomas Mann, and WEB Du Bois all drew on his work. Hitler was his most fateful disciple. Has the composer’s legacy been misunderstood?
March 13, 2017
MagazineJeet Heer
Horrible Histories
The perils of comparing Trump to twentieth-century dictators.
September 28, 2016
Alex Shephard
Michiko Kakutani’s review of a new book about Hitler isn’t really about Hitler.
July 5, 2016
Manu Braganca
The Curious History of Mein Kampf in France
Before publishing a new edition of Adolf Hitler’s book, this French publishing house will set the record straight.
January 12, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
What’s worse, having a father that helped the Nazis or blackmailing your gay brother?
January 11, 2016
Alex Shephard
Mein Kampf is a bestseller in Germany again.
November 30, 2015
Brian Beutler
A Munich metaphor too hot for Bill Kristol?
April 25, 2014
Isaac Chotiner
John McCain Compared Putin to Hitler, But No One Noticed
January 24, 2014
Adam Kirsch
No, Mein Kampf Is Not an Amazon Bestseller
December 3, 2013
Geoffrey Wheatcroft
On the Use and Abuse of Munich
Please, American blowhards: No more analogies to 1938
September 18, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
Finally, a Munich Analogy That Makes Sense
October 14, 2012
Chris Matthews
How John F. Kennedy's Appeasement Strategy Averted a Nuclear Holocaust
June 23, 2012
Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Highland Games
May 15, 2012
Harold James
Deutschland Über Alles: Should We Fear Germany's New Role in Europe?
July 13, 2011
Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Scoundrels!
August 30, 2010
Bradford Plumer
The Skeptical Environmentalist Is... No Longer Skeptical?

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