This summer, I am teaching a course on socio-ecological transformation, from analysis of the ecological crisis to questions of constitutional legitimacy to strategies. It fit right in that today - during this week's "Theme Week Science Against #Fascism" at German universities - I offered i.a. engagement with Laurence Britt's 14 characteristics of fascism (2003), and Robert Paxton's 5 Stages of Fascism (1998). Academia can no longer afford to ignore the illiberal right's attacks on science.