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November 7, 2024
"It is fascism—some sort of fascism."
United States of Fear
Fintan O’Toole has made a brilliant career watching Ireland (his home country) transform itself—its Catholic culture, its vanishing population, its frail economy—into something very modern and profoundly different. And he’s covered our country so well this year. Does he see something of a transformation that’s comparable in the United States?
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Fintan O'Toole
Author of We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland, and advising editor at the New York Review of Books.
Author of We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland, and advising editor at the New York Review of Books.
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