Having only a hazy idea of what, exactly, fascism consists of makes it hard to explain why fascist rhetoric needs to be excluded from public discourse. “You can’t define it as good or bad,” Caio ...

The controversy around the white supremacist march and attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, has sparked interest in the meaning of words like fascism and bigot. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary tweeted ...

It’s a new chapter for Dictionary.com. The online dictionary added 566 new words to its database Wednesday, as well as 348 new definitions for existing entries and 2,256 revised definitions. The new ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Donald Trump held another neo-fascist rally yesterday in North Carolina, where the crowd chanted things like “treason,” “traitor,” and “send her back,” while the president talked about Democratic ...

Definitions matter, especially in structural and/or systemic typologies, because imprecision leads to carelessness, obfuscation of repression, lack of support when it is merited, and the clarity ...

Bruce R. Tompkins resorts to name calling instead of dialogue in his Sept. 20 letter “Anti-war protesters march for fascism.” According to Webster’s dictionary, fascism is a system of government ...

On March 14, this paper published a letter purporting to educate us on “The hallmarks of fascism.” The letter included 14 items that were developed by a Dr. Lawrence Britt as “defining characteristics ...

Fifty years prior to rumors of fascism circling President Trump, activist and philosopher Angela Davis made a spooky ...