The success of an iPhone app that enables the user to access more than 100 speeches of the late fascist dictator is roiling Italy. But the attempt, so common in Europe and the US, to officially demonize and even outlaw politically incorrect words, is not only communist-fascist in its inspiration, it naturally stirs extra interest in what is banned. The words of Hitler or Lenin or FDR or Mussolini should never be censored for utilitarian as well as free speech reasons. We need to know what we fight. According to Benito, for example, “Fascism conceives of the State as an … Continue reading iMussolini