Is This 'A Time of Monsters'?

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” — Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937). He was writing in 1929 as he was detained by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and placed in a fascist prison where he later died. He was writing “about what he considered to be a new interregnum – a Europe that was tearing itsel…