Alberto Toscano is a sociologist from Goldsmiths College, London, and author of Fanaticism: On the uses of an idea. In this email interview, SHIFT asks him why understanding the history of the term ...

Donald Trump’s name appears only a couple of times in “Late Fascism,” the dense, concise and intellectually ambitious new book from Italian philosopher and political theorist Alberto Toscano. That’s ...

Is it historically apt or politically useful to compare Trump to European fascists? In a new essay, philosopher Alberto Toscano argues that analogies cannot do justice to the uniquely American history ...

Alberto Toscano teaches at Simon Fraser University. His latest book is Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism, and the Politics of Crisis. Frightened slaveowners cast the rebel leader as a monster. Scholars ...