Writers of lofty books on communist revolution are lucky enough if they are merely wrong. I can therefore only welcome these three worthy responses, kindly hosted by Field Notes, for the opportunity they allow me to clarify what I have left dim.

Jason E. Smith has written another banger for the Brooklyn Rail, on a topic I have long been curious about and which I have to come to see as a serious gap within current discussions about the trajectory of capitalism across the coming century: demography.

During the Trump era, when troops of neo-Nazis, white nationalists, Proud Boys, MAGA hats, militiamen, and Men’s Rights Activists descended on my city, there was little debate about what to call them: “fascist” seemed simple enough, even if one did not always know what ideology, exactly, moved which knife- or stick-wielding creep.