Mann argued that the success of demagogues depends less on strategic brilliance than on favourable circumstances and, above all, a lack of resistance ...

One of the most dangerous clichés about the far right is that it appeals exclusively to stupid people. But the truth is far more unsettling. In The Anatomy of Fascism, historian Robert Paxton ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Benno Herz, Claudia Gordon and Oliver Hartmann inside the Thomas Mann House in Pacific Palisades. The three help maintain the ...

Six months after the devastating fires in Los Angeles, the Thomas Mann House in Pacific Palisades will resume its regular activities on Friday, June 6, 2025. The reopening will be marked by a special ...

FRANKFURT, July 25 — There is a "certain moral difference" between pure communism and pure nazism, Thomas Mann declared today at his first German press interview since he fled Hitler's Third Reich 15 ...

On The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of “The Magic Mountain,” by Morten Høi Jensen. Can politics and aesthetics be pried apart? Can an infatuation with death be redirected ...

For four years after Hitler came to power, Nobel Prizewinner Thomas Mann, greatest of exiled German writers, evaded questioners who pressed him for his opinion of fascism in Germany. When he visited ...

Grzegorz Kwiatkowski explores, with the writer Thomas Mann, how the authoritarian temptation resides in all of us.