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THE URGENT TASK BEFORE US is the systematic study of rhetoric pursued in the name of human freedom. We face, today, the prospect of living through a fascist century. The intense pressures of impending climate catastrophe have catalyzed fascist movements across the globe, each seeking to justify its position atop a hierarchy that seeks control over diminishing resources. As the philosopher Jason Stanley writes, “we will soon find ourselves confronted by movements of disadvantaged people across borders that dwarf those of previous eras. . . . Traumatized, impoverished, and in need of aid, refugees, including legal immigrants, will be recast to fit racist stereotypes by leaders and movements committed to maintaining hierarchical group privilege and using fascist politics.”1 The fear of “invasion” by barbarian hordes will lead panic-stricken populations to flock to the promise of “fascist law and order rhetoric” that functions “to divide citizens into two classes: those of the chosen nation, who are lawful by nature, and those who are not, who are inherently lawless.”2 In reality, of course, fascists will be doing little but “waving the banner of nationalism in front of middle-and working-class white people in order to funnel the state’s spoils into the hands of oligarchs.”3 Those who embrace the fascist myth will see themselves as the Heroic defenders of a Chosen People in a struggle against Barbarians, both internal and external, in the noble effort to achieve the Rebirth a Nation. But it is fascists who will be leading us into Barbarism.