{"id":1051511,"date":"2023-04-05T05:59:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T05:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=278510"},"modified":"2023-04-05T05:59:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T05:59:54","slug":"fascism-denial-american-style-exceptionalism-in-the-ivory-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/04\/05\/fascism-denial-american-style-exceptionalism-in-the-ivory-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"Fascism Denial American Style: Exceptionalism in the Ivory Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It borders on clich\u00e9 the number of times historians lament how \u201cfascism\u201d is an over-used term. But Sinclair Lewis, writing about the specter of fascism a century ago, understood something most historians don\u2019t \u2013 that U.S. intellectual culture is loathe to acknowledge fascist undercurrents in this country. I attribute this hostility to intellectuals\u2019 belief that their nation is an exceptionalist democracy \u2013 hence fascism \u201ccan\u2019t happen here.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/04\/05\/fascism-denial-american-style-exceptionalism-in-the-ivory-tower\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/04\/05\/fascism-denial-american-style-exceptionalism-in-the-ivory-tower\/\">Fascism Denial American Style: Exceptionalism in the Ivory Tower<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/04\/05\/fascism-denial-american-style-exceptionalism-in-the-ivory-tower\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It borders on clich\u00e9 the number of times historians lament how \u201cfascism\u201d is an over-used term. But Sinclair Lewis, writing about the specter of fascism a century ago, understood something most historians don\u2019t \u2013 that U.S. intellectual culture is loathe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051512,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051511\/revisions\/1051512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}