Today is the two-year anniversary of the publication of Liberal Fascism. Seems longer, but maybe that’s just me.

I’m happy to report that the long tail of the book continues to inch along. Just this week I received copies of the Portuguese edition of LF, which makes at least half a dozen foreign translations. It continues to sell moderately well in paperback here in the States (thank you Democrats!) and, despite so much bleating from the obvious corners, it’s increasingly being picked up or excerpted in college and high-school courses. Indeed, that’s probably been the biggest surprise of the last year. I would have figured that the effort to shun and demonize the book would have had better success with academics. But I regularly hear from professors, including some from some pretty elite institutions, telling me they’re assigning this or that chapter for their classes (mostly the Wilson and FDR sections from what I can tell). They don’t always agree with my arguments, to be sure. But they’re respectful and admire the book overall. Meanwhile, more and more books use it as a source or cultural marker. For instance, Thomas Sowell’s fantastic new book cites LF quite a bit in the footnotes (though he was always a fan).

Anyway, I am very grateful to all of the support the book has received from readers and colleagues and, heck, even most of the vitriol from its enemies was helpful too.

So thanks again to everybody.

Oh, and I’m starting work on the next book now. More on that later.