Global Politics

On October 25, 2022,  Giorgia Meloni  became Prime Minister of the 68th Italian government since 1945.  In the revolving door world of Italian politics, Meloni is the first Italian Prime Minister whose Fratelli d’Italia party could claim an institutional link to Benito Mussolini’s Fascist Party.  Italy’s fascist past weighs lightly on many of its citizens, making it possible for Meloni…

*This is a much-extended and updated version of a previously published article. Introduction Israel’s November 2022 election results, which led to the establishment of a far right coalition with radical settlers occupying key positions in the ministries of finance, defense and home security, surprised many on the left and the center. Their politicians, spin-doctors and…

Prologue In a 2018 interview with the German news magazine Der Spiegel, Steve Bannon – Donald Trump’s former campaign manager and chief political strategist, who, in 2016, quipped that he wanted to make Breitbart News a “platform for the Alt-Right” – exalted Martin Heidegger as an intellectual inspiration and role model. The journalist who conducted the interview, Christoph Scheuermann,…