Fascism Or Genocide - How a Decade of Political Disorder Broke American Politics

A deeply reported look at how polarization and compounding crises, including the war in Gaza and threats to democracy, have reshaped American politics

List of contents

1 The Squad
2 Trump
3 Biden
4 Social Justice
5 Israel
6 Culture
7 The Election
8 The Changing Resistance

About the author

Ross Barkan is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. His journalism and essays have appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, GQ, and the Columbia Journalism Review, among others. Washington Post columnist Shadi Hamid called him "consistently one of the most interesting and original essayists of his generation."

In both 2017 and 2019, he was the recipient of the New York Press Club's award for distinguished newspaper commentary. He teaches journalism at NYU.

Barkan is the author of two novels and The Prince: Andrew Cuomo, Coronovirus, and the Fall of New York, about which The Nation wrote "A swift and devastating read. Barkan writes fluently, marshals facts persuasively, and foregrounds the power-obsessed Cuomo's contempt for the powerless." His next novel, Glass Century, will be published in 2025.

Product details

• Authors: Ross Barkan
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 29.07.2025
• EAN: 9781804299388
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-938-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Political Parties, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Commentary & Opinion, Political corruption, United States of America, USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Political parties and party platforms, Corruption in politics, government and society