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Paul Lerner
@plerner.bsky.social
🗃️ Historian of modern Central Europe, consumer culture, human sciences, migration, and Jews. Here to talk about fascism and cats. Mostly cats.
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I wrote this about teaching a fascism class in the age of Trump 🗃️
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/is-he-a-fasc...
They won’t find me here
January 12, 2026 at 6:07 PM
What do you mean by new semester
January 12, 2026 at 5:47 PM
I will never get used to LA demonstrations where it’s about getting drivers to honk
January 12, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Wow, take the win
January 11, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Reposted by Paul Lerner
“Beth Israel is not just a building. It is a witness [to] Jewish persistence in a place where Jews have lived as a tiny minority for generations, carving out space for faith & community … in the Deep South.

To see it burned is to feel a familiar Jewish nausea.”
forward.com/opinion/7962...
An arsonist torched a Mississippi synagogue. It feels hauntingly familiar.
A rabbi who served The Temple in Atlanta, bombed in 1958, reflects on arson at a Jackson, Miss. synagogue — and how history repeats itself.
forward.com
January 11, 2026 at 9:18 PM
The fugitive green parrots are back!
January 11, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Thank you!
January 11, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Getting ready to get out there
January 11, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Oh cool, thanks!
January 11, 2026 at 6:19 PM
I've been saying to anyone who will listen that we need to go back to Theweleit's "Männerphantasien" to understand the current moment
Interesting 1987 NYT book review of Klaus Theweleit's *Male Fantasies* "a study of the imaginative world of the German Freikorps movement."

www.nytimes.com/1987/06/21/b...
January 11, 2026 at 4:33 PM
So awful
January 11, 2026 at 4:07 AM
The president has said he will be “hitting them very hard” if Iranian leaders kill protesters amid widespread demonstrations calling for wholesale changes in the country.

Am I the only one seeing the irony here?

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/u...
Trump Is Briefed on Options for Striking Iran as Protests Continue
www.nytimes.com
January 11, 2026 at 1:53 AM
I wish our media were paying more attention to these world-historical events
January 9, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Just don't cross your legs while you eat it
January 9, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Thanks, Leon. Got home yesterday. But the timing is not ideal.
January 9, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Also sick. Hope you feel better soon!
January 9, 2026 at 9:59 PM
This is very sad. I am sorry. I barely knew him but know how much his students loved him
January 9, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Yes for sure. They have both-sided us into fascism. I was being facetious before
January 9, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Better late than never?
January 9, 2026 at 3:25 PM
I explained before I started my paper
January 9, 2026 at 7:18 AM
Happened to me once. Torn jeans!
January 9, 2026 at 5:21 AM
Congratulations, @sethrockman.bsky.social! Wonderful news
January 9, 2026 at 5:18 AM
Promoted “gender ideology”
January 8, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Good! I hope they can improve it. The bathroom visit will come back to me in my nightmares
January 8, 2026 at 2:41 PM
I know there are lots of more important things to talk about right now but I’m traveling and thus constantly reminded of how shitty this country’s infrastructure is. StL Airport: I’m looking at you
January 8, 2026 at 2:28 PM