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Michael Schwarz has edited this collection of twenty of Adorno’s public lectures from 1949-1968. Topics range from anti-semitism and the authoritarian personality to critiques of public policy and aesthetic concerns. One of the lectures included in this collection, “Aspekte des neuen Rechts-radikalismus” has also been published as a stand-alone text, accompanied by an epilogue by Volker Weiß. This lecture is of particular interest to us today, given that it is a talk delivered in 1967 in Vienna in response to the rise of the far-right National Democratic Party. Adorno’s discussion of the similarities and differences between this new turn to the right and older forms of fascism, and his analysis of the enduring popularity of extreme right-wing politics, may be instructive for those of us grappling with current global politics.