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Zack Beauchamp

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40 Maps That Explain World War I

Why the war started, how the Allies won, and why the world has never been the same.

by Matthew Yglesias, Zack Beauchamp, Timothy B. Lee via Vox on August 14, 2014

The Reactionary Spirit: How America's Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept the World

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Netanyahu, Trump, Orban, Modi.

The Reactionary Bind

In assessing the rise of the global anti-democracy movement, the United States must look inward as well as outward.

by Kim Phillips-Fein via Democracy Journal on October 21, 2024

Thomas Carlyle.

A Fundamentally Anti-Democratic Tradition: Zack Beauchamp's "The Reactionary Spirit"

Where conservatives may seek to conserve their democratic systems, reactionaries by their nature seek to weaken or abolish them.

by Matthew McManus via Liberal Currents on October 14, 2024

Clark Mills’s statue of Andrew Jackson, Lafayette Park, Washington D.C., circa 1910–1925

Vance’s Junk History

When Donald Trump and his followers go in search of historical forerunners to justify their regime, they turn with striking regularity to the presidency.

by Sean Wilentz via New York Review of Books on April 25, 2025

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