Will Humanism Deliver Us From Real Living Fascism?

In America, the rules are different.

On a whim, and inspired by Twitter, I sat down to watch the 1969 film Z this weekend. I had no idea what I was getting myself into, but I couldn’t really bear to go out. So I watched.

The Z in the title is not a mark of militarist fascists in the film, but rather the opposite: a rallying cry of the left. It is a symbol painted by protesters in memory of …