Person

John Ganz

Bylines

False Prophet

Meir Kahane's Legacy in Israel and America.

by John Ganz via Unpopular Front on May 10, 2024
The Book of Liberal Maladies

On Samuel Moyn's Cold War liberalism.

by John Ganz via Unpopular Front on January 18, 2024
Good Old Pat

Reflecting on Pat Buchanan's legacy.

by John Ganz via Unpopular Front on January 25, 2023
Excursus on the History of New York

The machine breaks down: A brief history of Tammany Hall.

by John Ganz via Unpopular Front on January 20, 2023
Myths of Doom

Can the origins of today’s right be traced to the 1990s?

by John Ganz via The Nation on November 29, 2022
Looking for an American Myth

The fevered hunt for basic symbols.

by John Ganz via Unpopular Front on February 6, 2022
Feb 6 1934/Jan 6 2021

What do the two events really have in common?

by John Ganz via Unpopular Front on July 15, 2021
The Most Fascinating Riot You've Never Heard Of

The Astor Place Opera House Riot of 1849 combined two of 19th-century America’s favorite pastimes: going to the theater and rioting.

by John Ganz via The Outline on February 11, 2020
The Year the Clock Broke

How the world we live in already happened in 1992.

by John Ganz via The Baffler on November 5, 2018
Killing Democracy to Save It

How an idealistic defense intellectual concluded that democracy is often its own worst enemy.

by John Ganz via Los Angeles Review of Books on July 6, 2018

When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

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A sign left behind by Trump supporters at a rally outside the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, September 27, 2023.

American Fascism

On how Europe’s interwar period informs the present.

by Rick Perlstein via The American Prospect on January 24, 2024

Donald Trump.

Why We Can’t Stop Arguing About Whether Trump Is a Fascist

In a new book, “Did it Happen Here?,” scholars debate what the F-word conceals and what it reveals.

by Andrew Marantz via The New Yorker on March 27, 2024

POW/MIA flag draped over an empty chair with a photo of a soldier.

Have You Forgotten Him?

The “forgotten American” mythology of the POW/MIA movement continues to haunt our politics today.

by John Thomason via The Baffler on December 14, 2022

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