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The Far Right Today by Cas Mudde
The poison that's infected the mainstream of the body politic
A murderous convention of crime writers, a hymn to nursing, a monster hunt, and robber baron capitalism
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a three-hander that broaches big themes, but doesn’t transcend dry academia
DAN GLAZEBROOK eavesdrops on the bourgeois intelligentsia and the stories it tells itself at this moment of crisis
JAN WOOLF is bowled over by a major retrospective for the YBA artist
LEO BOIX, ANGUS REID and MARIA DUARTE review Night Stage, Two Women, Kim Novak’s Vertigo, and Fuze
DUTCH academic Cas Mudde began researching the far right in the 1980s when, he notes, “neo-nazi groups could barely protest in the streets without being arrested and anti-immigration parties barely registered in the polls.”
But fast-forward to today and three of the world’s five most populous countries are run by a far-right leaders in India, Brazil and the US. Radical-right parties are part of coalition governments in four European countries — Austria, Bulgaria, Italy and Slovakia — and fully in control in Poland and Hungary, while two more are propped up by radical right parties in Denmark and Britain.
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