Julien Benda’s scribes without Torah.

An inadvertent warning about the dangers of political infantilization.

Meet Karl-Heinz Hoffman and his “military sports group.”

Not getting the joke.

Part Joyce, part Balzac, part yizkor book.

The dangers of rhetorical hysteria.

A forgotten chronicler of the Holocaust in Italy.

And the search for one survivor.

His pro-fascism and anti-Semitism call for stringent judgment.

The Argentinian author drew on a variety of Jewish ideas in his work.

There is little doubt that Benito Mussolini’s Venetian-born Jewish lover Margherita Sarfatti had a profound influence on the dictator’s career, but can she truly be. . .

Vladimir Putin has recently spoken admiringly of the 1939 Nazi-Soviet pact, which, in the run-up to World War II, allowed Germany and the Soviet Union. . .

Margherita Sarfatti, a Venetian Jewess, was Benito Mussolini’s mistress and confidante from 1912 until the 1930s. Sophisticated, educated, and politically engaged, she was unique among. . .

The close kinship between two modern political movements puts paid to the conventional idea that one of them, Nazism, is a more extreme form of conservatism.