Everyday Fascism: Brecht’s Warning about The Serpent’s Egg

“And therefore think him as a serpent’s eggWhich hatch’d, would as his kind grow mischievous;And kill him in the shell” – Brutus in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar The brilliant scholar, Paul Gilroy, once stated that we live at a time when the “horrors of the past are much closer to us than we like to imagine.” [...]