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Federico Finchelstein

Federico Finchelstein

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Federico Finchelstein, Professor of History at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College, is the author of The Wannabe Fascists: A Guide to Understanding the Greatest Threat to Democracy (University of California Press, 2024).

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  1. The Future of Conservatism
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    The Future of Conservatism

    Sep 9, 2024 Elizabeth Corey, et al. consider whether the populist “new right” in America, Europe, and elsewhere is here to stay.

  2. A COVID Genocide in the Americas?
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    A COVID Genocide in the Americas?

    Jan 18, 2021 Federico Finchelstein & Jason Stanley call for a debate on the historical and moral implications of the Brazilian and US pandemic responses.

  3. Will Fascism Win the US Election?
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    Will Fascism Win the US Election?

    Oct 30, 2020 Jason Stanley, et al. see worrying signs that Donald Trump is preparing to weaponize his cult of personality.

  4. The Fascist Politics of the Pandemic
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    The Fascist Politics of the Pandemic

    May 4, 2020 Federico Finchelstein & Jason Stanley show how right-wing governments' responses to the COVID-19 crisis fit a familiar, disturbing pattern.

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    Kishore Mahbubani on the US-China rivalry, Asian security risks, and more

    Kishore Mahbubani offers advice to Western diplomats attempting to engage with Asia, identifies risks to the region’s stability, highlights Singapore’s lessons for developing-country leaders, and more.
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    Tracking Air Quality the Right Way

    Soumya Swaminathan & Christa Hasenkopf call for an authoritative global accounting of the world’s single greatest external risk to human health.
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    Countries That March Together Should Trade Together

    Todd G. Buchholz urges the next US president to distinguish good from bad actors, rather than raise tariffs haphazardly.
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    Resetting US-China Economic Relations

    Barry Eichengreen

    The implications of the deepening Sino-American rift are far-reaching, because several of the world’s most pressing economic problems can be solved only with contributions from both countries. And, to address global challenges, active cooperation between the two economic powers is indispensable.

    hopes that political will on both sides catches up with the opporunities for cooperation that now exist.
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    The Improving Economics and Worsening Geopolitics of Clean Energy

    Daniel Gros warns that political obstacles are preventing the widespread uptake of low-cost green technologies.
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    Industrial Policy’s Deceptive New Clothes

    Raghuram G. Rajan

    If the new "industrial strategy" is offering ideas for better public governance, it is useful. But it becomes positively dangerous when it turns to the private sector, where state interventions inevitably undermine competition, disrupt price signals, and dampen the motivation to innovate.

    sees little reason to support the case for renewed government interventions in the private sector.
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    A New Trilemma Haunts the World Economy

    Dani Rodrik weighs the trade-offs between combating climate change, global poverty, and rich countries’ middle-class decline.
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    The Choice Confronting American Voters

    Koichi Hamada warns that electing a president who refuses to accept defeat could jeopardize not only US democracy.
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    The Climate Stakes of the US Election

    Joseph E. Stiglitz explains what another Donald Trump presidency would mean for the country’s economic and energy security.

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