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Authoritarianism

Life After Trump

by Charles Yu, Mike Jaccarino, A. S. Hamrah, Eileen Myles, Judith Martin, Olivia Laing, Yinka Elujoba, Lauren Oyler, Jane Hu, Liane Carlson, David Owen, Christian Lorentzen, Christopher Beha,

Reality after trump Tabloids after trump Movies after trump Relationships after trump Manners after trump Imagination after trump Gold after trump Conversation after trump Punctuation after trump Apologies after trump…

Melancholy Science

by Martin Jay,

From “Dialectic of Counter-Enlightenment,” an essay from the collection Splinters in Your Eye, which will be published this month by Verso. On July 22, 2011, a neofascist Norwegian terrorist named…

Brutal from the Beginning

by Marc de Miramon,Translated by Maggie Calt,

The truth about everyone’s favorite strongman

Machine Politics

by Harper’s Magazine,

Rather than creating a more equal society, the internet has given rise to a new age of authoritarianism

Machine Politics

by Fred Turner,

The rise of the internet and a new age of authoritarianism

Will Oil Drown the Arab Spring?

by Michael Ross,

Democracy and Deference

by Mark Slouka,

I blame my parents, which is trite but traditional. Six years after stepping onto the troubled shore of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s America they had a son and promptly began to fill…