The author is a "Stenbeck Fellow in Cultural Reporting and Criticism at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute ... a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Edinburgh, where she was a Witherspoon Scholar". These sorts of people are notorious for being unable to recognize that Nazi-ism was an ideology of the hard left, an ideology that the academic classes are extremely susceptible to. And indeed, we can feel her discomfort at nearly realizing the truth in the final paragraphs:
"Reading Signal today, I had the strange, uncomfortable feeling that I was agreeing, at least partially, with analyses promoted by the United States’ most notorious enemy ... its analyses of problems in the United States have a ring of accuracy to them—in many cases, more so than even US publications ... Without the clear nationalist rhetoric of other Nazi publications, Signal’s critiques of American capitalism scan as accurate, even percipient—prefiguring the work of later US writers like David Riesman and C. Wright Mills, who analyzed the effects of capitalism on an increasingly uniform, alienated American middle class."
Yes, you agree with them because the National Socialists were on the hard left and so are you. The analyses in question are bog standard Marxism in which capitalism is equated with moral degeneracy, exploitation and "imperialism", the exact same tactic used by the Soviets. The concept of widespread "alienation" is also distilled Marx: you just don't find that word or concept outside of Marxist literature.
Yet there is absolutely nothing accurate or percipient about Marxism nor Nazi-ism. Their social analyses were dangerous garbage designed to sound clever without actually being so, and that fact is widely understood everywhere except the sort of places the author has spent their life in - places that are today riven with the same old ideas posing in new clothes.
The fact that the Nazis were leftists is a fact the modern left constantly tries to deny today, but they were as far from Constitution-loving capitalists as it's possible to get. This article shows that extremely clearly: in their own analyses of their enemies they were inseparable from the Soviets they were fighting. What's scary is, even after the defeat of the Nazis and the fall of the USSR, in the western world this type of racist leftism was not wiped out as commonly assumed but merely retreated to its stronghold in academia. The exact sort of people who are obsessed with equating Nazis and conservative white men are also the sort of people who write glowing reviews of Nazi propaganda magazines. "The Enemy as Sociologist" indeed. How very ironic.