Ernest Sternberg is professor at the University at Buffalo, where he teaches urban and regional planning, the subject in which he received a PhD from Cornell University in 1990. His usual research has been on land use planning, disaster response, infrastructure planning, and regional economic development. In the past ten years he has also been writing about the rise of the 21st century’s new radical ideologies and about the causes of revived anti-Semitism.
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the author’s debut article on his Substack, Ideology Detective, shared here with permission. The 20th century was driven by revolutionary ideologies. Sure, there were social and military reasons for the ugly birth of communism in Russia, as there were for the repulsive rise of fascism in Italy. […]
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