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Fintan O’Toole

Fintan O’Toole has been an op-ed columnist for the Irish Times since 1988.

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Trial Runs for Fascism Are in Full Flow
To grasp what is going on in the world right now, we need to reflect on two things. One is that we are in a phase of trial runs. The other is that what is being trialled is fascism – a word that should be used carefully but not shirked when it is so clearly on the horizon. Forget “post-fascist” –...
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