Fascism

In" Professors as Propagandists"(April), Alexander Riley systematically misrepresents my 2018 book, How Fascism Works. If this were my only objection, I would not be writing this letter. There is a substantial moral and political disagreement brought out by his piece. I would be remiss to let his position on the matter go unengaged. Riley suggests that I had only begun thinking about the topic of this book in November 2016. But the book is the" trade press" version of my 2015 book with Princeton University Press, How Propaganda Works, a book he never mentions.(It is also based on public essays I had been writing for years.) Riley upbraids me for identifying fascism with an"'us' against'them'approach to politics." This will confuse only those who choose to stop at its subtitle. In the book, fascism is based on an us/them distinction forged on ethno-nationalism (and possibly, I suggest, intermixed or replaced with religious