Tag: fascism

The Trump Mediation

What Sinclair Lewis had warned in It Can’t Happen Here—a Hitler-esque rise to power at the centre of the democratic world—anticipated by all sides from the early days of Trump’s apotheosis, seemed actually to be materialising.

‘Except by Chance’: The Christchurch Inquiry

...we might consider how, with unerring though likely unwitting proficiency, the report essentially acts as an endorsement of Countering Violent Extremism…

Neo-fascism and the Culture of Silence

A culture of silence provides us with an important insight into the nature of hegemony: control over the population is best maintained through complicity in one’s own oppression.

Trump and the Fascist Prospect, by John Hinkson

The socio-cultural conditions of the collapse of liberal democracy

Trump and Disruption?, by Robert Geroux

Robert Geroux

11 Feb 2017

There are some ominous points of contact between the ideology of disruption on the one hand, and fascism on the other.

Trump: Totalitarian Individualism, by Bruce Kapferer

Bruce Kapferer

23 Jan 2017

Wall Street has effectively been repositioned in Vegas.

Trump: Yes, Fascist, by Paul James

Paul James

21 Jan 2017

This is the ‘unthinkable’ threat that Philip Roth foretold in his novel The Plot Against America.

Before the Deluge

Guy Rundle