Topics in Strategic Studies – Spring 2026 Series

Tuesdays, 7-9 pm ET

Join us for a new format for the “Historical Roots…” study, reworked for 2026 as Topics in Strategic Studies. We will select and read one significant book of political theory or history a month, focused on understanding the stresses and directions for change in the present moment. Each week, we will invite one of us or a guest to present a current topic along with optional readings. This new format will enable us to dig into break-through studies and analyses while also ensuring continuing new and lively discussions on topics of interest.

This month, we are reading Alberto Toscano’s Late Fascism:  Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis. Verso Publishers presents this important study: “Drawing especially on Black radical and anti-colonial theories of fascism, Toscano makes clear the limits of associating fascism primarily with the kind of political violence experienced by past European regimes. Rather than looking for analogies from history, we should see fascism as a mutable process, one anchored in racial and colonial capitalism, which both predates and survives its crystallization in Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany.”

As we confirm additional readings for the spring and summer, we will add them to a new syllabus which you can request, while continuing to update our long-term bibliography of supplementary readings.