Authoritarianism Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/authoritarianism/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:38:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Authoritarianism Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/authoritarianism/ 32 32 “Lying in Politics”: Hannah Arendt’s Antidote to Anticipatory Despair https://www.publicbooks.org/lying-in-politics-hannah-arendts-antidote-to-anticipatory-despair/ Wed, 21 May 2025 15:00:52 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59703 Four months in, the new Trump administration is already moving from self-deception and deception on to “image making” and “ideologizing”; it is fast approaching complete “defactualization.”

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]]> Hindu Nationalism: A Movement, Not a Mandate https://www.publicbooks.org/hindu-nationalism-a-movement-not-a-mandate/ Wed, 15 Dec 2021 16:00:08 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=46659 Most authoritarian populists in power across the world are politicians, at the helm of parties that have won elections. Modi is more than that.

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]]> The Melting of the American Mind https://www.publicbooks.org/the-melting-of-the-american-mind/ Tue, 14 Sep 2021 15:00:53 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=45090 Figuring out how people became fascists was the aim of Adorno and his colleagues’ 1950 study, The Authoritarian Personality. Has the answer changed?

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]]> Apartheid’s Paper Trail https://www.publicbooks.org/apartheids-paper-trail/ Thu, 22 Apr 2021 15:00:59 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=42544 Why did some Black South Africans directly collaborate with their oppressors, and what was their experience like?

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]]> Thailand: The Playwright and the Junta https://www.publicbooks.org/thailand-the-playwright-and-the-junta/ Mon, 25 Nov 2019 16:00:07 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=32452 Everything changed with the May 22, 2014, coup, Thailand’s 12th military takeover since the end of the absolute monarchy, in 1932. This time, a ...

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]]> Free Speech and Equality on Campus https://www.publicbooks.org/free-speech-and-equality-on-campus/ Fri, 25 Jan 2019 16:00:01 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=26009 Every day at one of the over four thousand colleges and universities in the United States, some eager individual is denied the opportunity to speak to college students ...

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]]> The Big Picture https://www.publicbooks.org/the-big-picture/ Fri, 06 Oct 2017 14:00:19 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=15756 This public symposium is a collective effort to assess the rise of Trump and the impact of America’s unsettling turn toward authoritarian rule. It’s a call for us to pull back from the deluge of tweets …

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