Talk about your ?bats in the belltower? (a regular feature of the higher-education section of Carolina Journal):
Arnold Beichman, columnist for The Washington Times, writes Monday about an upcoming sessions of the American Political Science Association. The theme is, no joke: ?Is it time to call it fascism??
No, the panelists won?t be talking about Saddam Hussein?s Iraq, the Taliban?s Afghanistan, or dictatorships in North Korea, Iran, Syria, or Venezuela. Beichman writes:
. . . I would like to help Professor Dvora Yanow of California State University, Hayward, the panel chairman answer the panel’s question: “Is there a theoretical-definitional grounding to make a claim for the present U.S. administration as fascist, and is it useful, critically, to use that language at this point in time?”
