New Fascism Syllabus
Read Me First:
Heineman, Lisa. “Why a ‘New Fascism’ Syllabus?” Hate 2.0, 19 November 2016. URL: https://hate2point0.com/2016/11/19/why-a-new-fascism-syllabus/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NewFascSyllabus
Understanding Trump, Anticipating Trump’s America
Ben-Ghiat, Ruth. “Trump is following the authoritarian handbook.” CNN, 17 January 2017. URL: http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/16/opinions/trump-following-authoritarian-playbook-ben-ghiat/
Berney, Jesse. “Trump’s presidency is shaping up to be an American tragedy.” The Rolling Stone, 8 December 2016. URL: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/trumps-presidency-is-shaping-up-to-be-an-american-tragedy-w454640
Article focuses on the ways in which Trump’s ideology and lack of respect for the American political system is setting America up for tragedy and downfall. Berney describes Trump as “a president who won on a campaign of anti-immigrant furor, who believes in casting aside freedom like litter, who craves constant validation and can’t abide criticism or satire - [...] a tyrant in the making.”
Bishop, Thomas. “‘Trump TV’ Will Be in the White House Press Briefings.” Media Matters, 6 December 2016. URL: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/06/trump-tv-will-be-white-house-press-briefings/214735
Bottici, Chiara. “The Mass Psychology of Trumpism: Old and New Myths,” Public Seminar, 17 November 2016. URL: http://www.publicseminar.org/2016/11/the-mass-psychology-of-trumpism/#.WG1Sj_krLIV
Caldwell, Ellen C. “Teaching Trump: The Rise of the Crowd-Sourced Syllabus.” JSTOR Daily, 1 December 2016. URL: http://daily.jstor.org/teaching-trump-rise-crowd-sourced-syllabus/.
Tracks the emergence of crowd-sourced syllabi, and their uses in our contemporary age.
Duca, Lauren. “Donald Trump is Gaslighting America.” Teen Vogue, 10 December 2016. URL: http://www.teenvogue.com/story/donald-trump-is-gaslighting-america
Duca challenges Trump’s consistent and systematic efforts to hide and destabilize the truth, arguing that “Trump won the Presidency by gas light.”
Finchelstein, Federico and Pablo Piccato. “Trump’s macho populism.” openDemocracy, 3 October 2016. URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/federico-finchelstein-pablo-piccato/trump-s-macho-populism
Glaser, Linda B. “Theory Reading group examines Trump and Fascism.” Cornell University: The College of Arts and Sciences, 16 December 2016. URL: http://as.cornell.edu/news/theory-reading-group-examines-trump-and-fascism
Gerson, Michael. “Trump’s 100th-day speech may have been the most hate-filled in modern history” The Washington Post, 1 May 2017. URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-100th-day-speech-may-have-been-the-most-hate-filled-in-modern-history/2017/05/01/da4ad496-2e99-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html?utm_term=.8b4a5b381b2e
Gopnik, Adam. “Being Honest about Trump.” The New Yorker, 14 July 2016. URL: http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/being-honest-about-trump.
Grossberg, Lawrence. “There Are No Guarantees in History: A Cultural Studies Perspective on the Current Crisis.” Truthout, 1 January 2017. URL: http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/38906-there-are-no-guarantees-in-history-a-cultural-studies-perspective-on-the-current-crisis
Harris-Perry, Melissa. “24 Books, Essays, and Other Texts to Read Because You're Still Having Trouble Processing the Election.” Elle Magazine, 29 November 2016. URL: http://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a41063/election-reflection-syllabus/
Subdivides reading list into categories for understanding both black and white women as voters, the history of Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and Resistance, and understanding political media.
“Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda.” URL: https://www.indivisibleguide.com/
Former congressional staffers reveal the best practices for making Congress listen; also available to download as a .doc and .pdf file.
Johnson, Walter. “Podcast: The Souls of White Folk.” Boston Review, 18 November 2016. URL: http://bostonreview.net/podcast/walter-johnson-souls-white-folk
Konczal, Mike. “Learning from Trump in Retrospect.” Medium, 1 December 2016. URL: https://medium.com/@rortybomb/learning-from-trump-in-retrospect-dce431b23ed0#.8gqux1lke
Konczal analyses the rhetoric and language of Trump rallies, which focuses on jobs, particular economic enemies (Washington elites, media, other countries, immigrants), trade, taxes, places, and power.
Levitsky, Steven and Daniel Ziblatt. “Is Donald Trump a Threat to Democracy?” The New York Times, 16 December 2016. URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/16/opinion/sunday/is-donald-trump-a-threat-to-democracy.html
The title says it all - this piece explores the ever-important question of whether or not the election of Donald Trump as president is a threat to American democracy. Levitsky and Ziblatt argue “The risk we face, then, is not merely a president with illiberal proclivities — it is the election of such a president when the guardrails protecting American democracy are no longer as secure.”
MacWilliams, Matthew. “That one weird trait that predicts whether you’re a Trump supporter.” Politico Magazine, 17 January 2016. URL: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/donald-trump-2016-authoritarian-213533
Meacham, Jon. “The man to blame for our culture of fame.” Nor York Times, 26 April 2017. URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/books/review/the-long-view-culture-of-fame-walter-winchell.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0
Review on technology and celebrity, offering a different perspective on, and way to think about, trump and fascist leadership.
“The New Nationalism.” The Economist, 17 November 2016. URL: http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21710249-his-call-put-america-first-donald-trump-latest-recruit-dangerous
Moyd, Michelle and Yuliya Komska. “Trump's redundant, 'post-literate' way of speaking is changing our language.” Business Insider, 17 January 2017. URL: http://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-redundant-post-literate-way-of-speaking-is-changing-our-language-2017-1
Prieto, Ana. “Carlo Ginzburg and the Trials of Microhistory.” Verso Books Blog, 15 December 2016. URL: http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3013-carlo-ginzburg-and-the-trails-of-microhistory
Interview with Carlo Ginzburg on the subject of “post-truth” politics in the wake of the Brexit vote and Trump’s presidential victory.
Ross, Alex. “The Frankfurt School knew Trump was coming.” The New Yorker, 5 December 2016. URL: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-frankfurt-school-knew-trump-was-coming
Cultural comment from The New Yorker, exploring the perspectives of Adorno, Mann, Horkheimer, and other émigrés in the context of our contemporary [social] media dominated political scene.
Snyder, Timothy. “Him.” Slate, 18 November 2016. URL: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2016/11/his_election_that_november_came_as_a_surprise.html
Snyder, Timothy. “What can European History teach us about Trump’s America?” Youtube: Yale University. 6 December 2016. URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nEmBmGK5kM&feature=youtu.be
Steinmetz-Jenkins, Daniel. “Why Steve Bannon wants to destroy secularism.” The Guardian, 7 December 2016. URL: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/07/why-steve-bannon-wants-to-destroy-secularism
Piece explores Steve Bannon’s belief system - laid out as “traditionalism”. Bannon points to the increasing secularization of Western society has having eroded Judeo-Christian values - which had, up until recently, been adequately able to “represent the culture and economic interests of the working classes.”
Taub, Amanda. “The rise of American authoritarianism.” Vox, 1 March 2016. URL: http://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11127424/trump-authoritarianism
Discusses the correlation between Trump’s campaign and the rise of authoritarianism in America. This piece also seeks to define American authoritarianism, its workings, and what it can explain about contemporary American politics.
Vogel, Kenneth P. “Trump private security force ‘playing with fire.’” Politico, 19 December 2016. URL: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/donald-trump-security-force-232797
Trump continues to employ retired cops and FBI agents as his private security detail, rather than relinquishing protection to the United States Secret Service (and event security mostly to local law enforcement.)
Younge, Gary. “How Trump took middle America.” The Guardian, November 2016. URL: https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2016/nov/16/how-trump-took-middletown-muncie-election
Zamudio-Suarez, Fernanda. “Why Historians want you to journal in the age of Trump” The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 31 2017, URL: http://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-Historians-Want-You-to/240214?utm_content=buffer2ed7f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Rebecca Erbelding, Archivist at the USHMM encourages historians and scholars to take 10 minutes out of their day in the evening to document life under the Trump administration.
Historical and Historicized Discussions of Fascism
Benjamin, Walter. “Theories of German Fascism: On the Collection of Essays War and Warrior, edited by Ernst Jünger.” Die Gesellschaft, 1930: http://documents.mx/documents/w-benjamin-theories-of-german-fascismpdf.html
Chaudhary, Ajay Singh and Raphaële Chappe. “The Supermanagerial Reich.” LA Review of Books, 7 November 2016. URL: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-supermanagerial-reich/#
Analyses the political economy of National Socialism.
The Diane Rehm Show. “The History of Fascism and its Relevance to U.S. Politics Today.” 13 December 2016. URL: http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2016-12-13/the-history-of-fascism-and-its-relevance-to-u-s-politics-today
Diane Rehm hosts Julie Hirschfeld Davis (White House reporter, New York Times, Stephen Moore (senior economic advisor to the Trump campaign), Timothy Snyder (Professor of History at Yale University), and Aaron David Miller (VP and distinguished scholar). Transcript and recording available.
Eco, Umberto. “Ur-Fascism.” The New York Review, 22 June 1995. URL: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/
Finchelstein, Federico. Transatlantic Fascism: Ideology, Violence, and the Sacred in Argentina and Italy, 1919-1945. Duke University Press, 2010.
[From website]: In Transatlantic Fascism, Federico Finchelstein traces the intellectual and cultural connections between Argentine and Italian fascisms, showing how fascism circulates transnationally. From the early 1920s well into the Second World War, Mussolini tried to export Italian fascism to Argentina, the “most Italian” country outside of Italy. (Nearly half the country’s population was of Italian descent.) Drawing on extensive archival research on both sides of the Atlantic, Finchelstein examines Italy’s efforts to promote fascism in Argentina by distributing bribes, sending emissaries, and disseminating propaganda through film, radio, and print. He investigates how Argentina’s political culture was in turn transformed as Italian fascism was appropriated, reinterpreted, and resisted by the state and the mainstream press, as well as by the Left, the Right, and the radical Right.
Hofmann, Reto. The Fascist Effect: Japan and Italy, 1915-1957. Cornell University Press, 2015. URL: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100543070&fa=author&person_id=5172
Kobabe, Maia. “Strength through Unity: How to spot Fascism before it’s too late” The NIB 4 May 2017, URL: https://thenib.com/strength-through-unity?t=recent
A comic strip on defining the characteristics of fascism.
Orwell, George. “What is Fascism?” The Tribune, 1944. URL: http://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/As_I_Please/english/efasc.
Pierce, Charles P. “Up in Michigan, Where American Fascism Lived Once Before: Father Coughlin, Donald Trump, and the dangerous narcotic we call the American Dream.” Esquire, 8 March 2016. URL: http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a42826/donald-trump-father-coughlin-fascism/
Gregor, Neil, “Mein Kampf”. Some Afterthoughts.
GHIL Bulletin 39 (2017),1 - 105 - 'Mein Kampf'. Some Afterthoughts.pdf
Emergence of the Alt-Right, Resurgence of the Old Right
Antifa, J. Sakai. “The Shock of Recognition,” Kersplebedeb, 3 March 2013. URL: http://kersplebedeb.com/posts/the-shock-of-recognition/
BBC News, “Inside the ‘neo-Nazi village’ of Jamel,” 6 September 2016. URL: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37280504
[From website]: “Jamel in north-eastern Germany has become a "neo-Nazi town" after far-right supporters moved in. Neighbours say they perform "Heil Hitler" salutes and sing Nazi songs.” Paul Adams investigates. Video produced by James Reevell.
Beinart, Peter. “Failing To Confront Trump’s Bigotry Is a Moral Stain on Simon Wiesenthal Center — and American Jews.” Forward, 12 January 2017. URL: http://forward.com/opinion/359764/failing-to-confront-trumps-bigotry-is-a-moral-stain-on-simon-wiesenthal-cen/
Cadwalladr, Carole. “Antisemite, Holocaust denier … yet David Irving claims fresh support.” The Guardian, 15 January 2017. URL: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/15/david-irving-youtube-inspiring-holocaust-deniers
Cadwalladr Carole. “Google is not ‘just’ a platform. It frames, shapes and distorts how we see the world.” The Guardian, 11 December 2016. URL: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/11/google-frames-shapes-and-distorts-how-we-see-world
Profiles Stormfront (the “voice of the new embattled white minority … a community of racial realists and idealists”) and their efforts to shape the ways in which Google search results reflect the promotion of active and contemporary Holocaust denial. Cadwalladr concludes that “Google, with all its money and resources, is being owned by hate sites who have hijacked its search results.”
Cadwalladr, Carole. “Google, Democracy, and the Truth about Internet Search.” The Guardian, 4 December 2016. URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/04/google-democracy-truth-internet-search-facebook
A companion to the piece above, this work explores the ways in which Google broadly shapes our understanding of knowledge, digital or not, through the lens of prominent Holocaust denial websites. Cadwalladr notes, “this is an entirely circular knowledge economy that has only one outcome: an amplification of the message. Jews are evil. Women are evil. Islam must be destroyed. Hitler was one of the good guys.”
Hawkins, Darek. “Japanese American internment is ‘precedent’ for national Muslim registry, prominent Trump backer says.” The Washington Post, 17 November 2016. URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/11/17/japanese-internment-is-precedent-for-national-muslim-registry-prominent-trump-backer-says/?utm_term=.4f7031a01add
Heinlein, Sabine. “Take it from a German: Americans are too timid in confronting hate.” The Daily Beast, 1 January 2017. URL: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/01/01/take-it-from-a-german-americans-are-too-timid-in-confronting-hate.html
Heinlein puts it better than I can in the conclusion of her piece: “Americans are fond enough of multi-ethnic, culinary mashups, and I think it’s time for all of us to try out a little German-American fusion. If you dare to bite into a Cronut or kimchi taco, you might want to try out my little German lesson. Hateful graffiti at the bus stop? Be like my Queens council man Jimmy Van Bramer: Get a sponge and detergent, and scrub it away. Hear abuse on the subway? Talk to the victim and lead her to safety.”
Illing, Sean. “Comparing the alt-right to Nazism may be hyperbolic — but it's not ridiculous.” Vox, 6 December 2016. URL: http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/12/6/13807056/alt-right-donald-trump-hitler-nazism-christopher-browning-ideology?platform=hootsuite
(Interview with Christopher Browning)
Kovaleski, Serge F., Julie Turkewitz, Joseph Goldstein, and Dan Barry. “An Alt-Right Makeover Shrouds the Swastikas.” The New York Times, 10 December 2016. URL: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/10/us/alt-right-national-socialist-movement-white-supremacy.html
Leahy, Joe. “Brazil neo-Nazi claim challenges myth of nation’s racial harmony.” Financial Times, 10 January 2017. URL: https://www.ft.com/content/f9ee01ca-ce49-11e6-864f-20dcb35cede2
Lombroso, Daniel and Yoni Appelbaum. “‘Hail Trump!’: White Nationalists Salute the President-Elect.” The Atlantic, 21 November 2016. URL: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/richard-spencer-speech-npi/508379/
Lombroso, Daniel. “Rebranding White Nationalism: Inside the Alt-Right.” The Atlantic Video, 15 December 2016. URL: http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/510533/rebranding-white-nationalism-inside-the-alt-right/
Video documentary which explores Richard B. Spencer’s ethnocentric worldview to understand the plans and development for the alt-right. Spencer notes, “I don't see myself as a marginal figure who's going to be hated by society. I see myself as a mainstream figure [...] Our lived experience is being a young, white person in 21st century America, [and] seeing your identity be demeaned [...] I’ve lived in this multicultural mess for years and I’m trying to get out of it."
O’Connor, Maureen. “The Philosophical Fascists of the Gay Alt-Right.” The Cut, 30 April 2017. URL: https://www.thecut.com/2017/04/jack-donovan-philosophical-fascists-of-the-gay-alt-right.html
A look at Jack Donovan -- a 42-year old skinhead -- rejection of a “gay” identity and embrace of “Androphilia”.
Onion, Rebecca. “Is Racism a Disease?” Slate, 17 November 2016. URL: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2016/11/is_racism_a_psychological_disorder.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_fb_top
Petrow, Steven. “The coded language of the alt-right is helping to power its rise.” The Washington Post, 10 April 2017. URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-coded-language-of-the-alt-right-is-helping-to-power-its-rise/2017/04/07/5f269a82-1ba4-11e7-bcc2-7d1a0973e7b2_story.html?utm_term=.76d10b121f3a
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “Museum condemns hateful rhetoric at white nationalist conference; calls on the nation to confront hate speech.” 21 November 2016. URL: https://www.ushmm.org/information/press/press-releases/museum-condemns-white-nationalist-conference-rhetoric
Vials, Christopher. Haunted by Hitler: Liberals, the Left, and the Fight Against Fascism in the United States. University of Massachusetts Press, 2014. URL: http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/haunted-hitler
[From website] Traversing the Popular Front of the 1930s, the struggle against McCarthyism in the 1950s, the Black Power movement of the 1960s, and the AIDS activism of the 1980s, Haunted by Hitler highlights the value of “antifascist” cultural politics, showing how it helped to frame the national discourse. Christopher Vials examines the ways in which anxieties about fascism in the United States have been expressed in the public sphere, through American television shows, Off-Broadway theater, party newspapers, bestselling works of history, journalism, popular sociology, political theory, and other media. He argues that twentieth-century liberals and leftists were more deeply unsettled by the problem of fascism than those at the center or the right and that they tirelessly and often successfully worked to counter America’s fascist equivalents.
Warwick Historians, “Bigotry seeks company in the UK.” openDemocracy, 19 December 2016. URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/warwick-historians/bigotry-seeks-company-in-uk
A piece written by the historians are the University of Warwick voice their concerns over the increasingly commonplace racism in Britain, especially in the wake of the Brexit vote.
Wilson, Jason. “Postland’s Dark History of White Supremacy” The Guardian, 1 June 2017, URL:
Is Trump a Fascist?
Augstein, Jakob. “Trump beim Namen nennen.” Der Spiegel, 17 November 2016. URL: http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/donald-trump-wie-seine-wahl-die-demokratie-gefaehrdet-kolumne-a-1121716.html
Berman, Sheri. “Donald Trump isn’t a fascist.” Vox, 3 January 2017. URL: http://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/1/3/14154300/fascist-populist-trump-democracy
Byrnes, Mark. “Trump isn’t a fascist. He has fascist instincts.” History News Network, 24 May 2016. URL: http://historynewsnetwork.org/blog/153772
CNN Politics. “Ken Burns: Trump is using Nazi Playbook.” URL: http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/10/20/ken-burns-trump-intv-amanpour.cnn
CNN Politics. “Spicer apologizes for Hitler comparison.” URL: http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/11/politics/sean-spicer-hitler-assad-gas-chemical-weapons/
De Grazia, Victoria. “Many Call Trump a Fascist. 100 days in, is he just a Republican?” The Guardian, 30 April 2017. URL: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/30/donald-trump-fascist-republican-100-days?CMP=share_btn_fb
De Grazia highlights the differences in the first 100 days of the Trump presidency with those of his German and Italian counter-parts from the 1920s and 1930s.
Eley, Geoff. “Is Trump a Fascist?” Hate 2.0, 21 November 2016. URL: https://hate2point0.com/2016/11/21/is-trump-a-fascist/
Podcast: “Trump Comparison with Hitler” interview with Neil Gregor on Dan Snow’s History Hit Podcast May 17 2017, URL:
Herf, Jeffrey. “Is Donald Trump a Fascist?” The American Interest, 7 March 2017. URL: https://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/03/07/is-donald-trump-a-fascist/
Humphreys, Justin. “Fascism in America?” Public Seminar, 17 January 2017. URL: http://www.publicseminar.org/2017/01/fascism-in-america/#.WH-McvkrLIW
Kinsley, Michael. “Donald Trump is actually a fascist.” The Washington Post, 9 December 2016. URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trump-is-actually-a-fascist/2016/12/09/e193a2b6-bd77-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?utm_term=.91190e4bf62a
Can be read in tandem with the Pearl interview with Isabel Hull; Kinsley argues quite the opposite - that a very recognizable agenda has emerged from Trump’s campaign, “in the sense of somebody who sincerely believes that the toxic combination of strong government and strong corporations should run the nation and the world.”
“No, this isn’t the 1930s - but yes, this is fascism.” The Conversation, 16 November 2016. URL: http://theconversation.com/no-this-isnt-the-1930s-but-yes-this-is-fascism-68867
Pearl, Mike. “We Asked a Fascism Expert if Donald Trump is a Fascist.” Vice, 5 December 2016. URL: http://www.vice.com/read/we-asked-a-fascism-expert-if-donald-trump-is-a-fascist-124.
Features an interview with Cornell University’s Isabel Hull, which focuses on placing Trump and his politics on the sliding scale between Republican and Fascist. Hull argues that Trump is “not principled enough to be a Fascist,” and points to the emergence of a discrepancy in American conservatism, especially in relation to the Republican Party.
Salmon, Christian. “Trump, fascism, and the construction of ‘the people’: An Interview with Judith Butler.” Verso Books Blog, 29 December 2016. URL: http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3025-trump-fascism-and-the-construction-of-the-people-an-interview-with-judith-butler
Schauer, Jeff. “Trump’s fascism poses existential threat.” California Mwananchi, 26 November 2016. URL: http://californiamwananchi.blogspot.ca/2016/09/trumps-fascism-poses-existential-threat.html
Steigmann-Gall, Richard. “One expert says yes, Donald Trump is a fascist. And it’s not just Trump.” The Huffington Post, 18 July 2016. URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/one-expert-says-yes-donald-trump-is-a-fascist-and_us_578d1a56e4b0d4229484d3e0
Steigmann-Gall, Richard. “If Trump really is a fascist, what would a Trump presidency look like?” The Huffington Post, 25 July 2016. URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/if-trump-really-is-a-fascist-what-would-a-trump-presidency_us_578f0862e4b004b4c9a3b2a6
Steigmann-Gall, Richard. “What the American Left doesn’t understand about fascism.” The Huffington Post, 7 October 2016. URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/what-the-american-left-doesnt-understand-about-fascism_us_57f5e21ee4b050f8f9045022
Tucker, Jeffrey. “Waking up to the reality of Fascism.” Foundation for Economic Education, 9 December 2016. URL: https://fee.org/articles/waking-up-to-the-reality-of-fascism/
Mintzker, Yair. “Donald Trump’s Ancient Régime”. Project Syndicate June 1 2017, URL: trump-ancien-regime-court-society-by-yair-mintzker-2017-06
M. sees Trump as a modern Louix-XIV (rather than an embodiment of the Fascism of the 30s.)
Historical Commentary and Comparison in the Age of Trump
Bessner, Daniel and Udi Greenberg. “The Weimar Analogy.” Jacobin, 17 December 2016. URL: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/12/trump-hitler-germany-fascism-weimar-democracy/
Bessner and Greenberg take up the comparison between the 2016 American election and the Weimar Republic - and the ways in which this comparison has heightened fears and anxieties for the future. This work features a return to militant democracy’s original theorists, the origins of a democratic fear of fascism and the ways in which it eroded democratic practice.
Best, Isabel. “Should we even go there? Historians on comparing fascism to Trumpism.” The Guardian, 1 December 2016. URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/01/comparing-fascism-donald-trump-historians-trumpism
Volker Ulrich, Richard Bosworth, and Simon Schama, consider the implications of comparing Fascism to Trumpism, while providing six history lessons to keep in mind as we move forward: 1. don’t ignore what people vote for; 2. Politicians need to rethink their modus operandi; 3. Beware the rise of the surveillance state; 4. Deal with the inequalities caused by neoliberalism; 5. Build alliances; and 6. Don’t normalize fear, intimidation, and self-censorship.
Caplan, Jane. “Trump and Fascism. A View from the Past.” History Workshop: Histories of the Present. 17 November 2016. URL: http://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/trump-and-fascism-a-view-from-the-past/
Furedi, Frank. “ ‘Just like Hitler’: The Diminishing of the Holocaust.” Spiked Online, 20 February 2017. URL: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/just-like-hitler-the-diminishing-of-the-holocaust/19468#.WTSjwzOZMnV
Hamilton, Shawn. “What those who studied Nazis can teach us about the strange reaction to Donald Trump.” The Huffington Post, 19 December 2016. URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-nazi-propaganda-coordinate_us_58583b6fe4b08debb78a7d5c
Haynes, Stephen R. “Has the Bonhoeffer Moment Finally Arrived?” The Huffington Post, 30 November 2016. URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-r-haynes/has-the-bonhoeffer-moment_b_13275278.html
Isaac, Jeffrey C. “How Hannah Arendt’s classic work on totalitarianism illuminates today’s America.” The Washington Post, 17 December 2016. URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/12/17/how-hannah-arendts-classic-work/?utm_term=.9e489e9bd2e8
Brief overview of Arendt’s Origins, arguing that because we currently live in dark times, Arendt’s work can speak powerfully to our present moment. Even if these dark times are different, or perhaps less dark (or “differently dark”), Origins can raise a set of fundamental questions about how tyranny can arise, and “the dangerous forms of inhumanity to which it can lead.”
Mazower, Mark. “Ideas that fed the beast of fascism flourish today.” Financial Times, 6 November, 2016. URL: https://www.ft.com/content/599fbbfc-a412-11e6-8898-79a99e2a4de6
Pengelly, Martin. “Where memory leads: Saul Friedländer, the Holocaust, History and Trump.” The Guardian, 20 November 2016. URL: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/20/where-memory-leads-saul-friedlander-holocaust-history-trump
Sinha, Manisha. “It feels like the fall of Reconstruction.” The Huffington Post, 22 November 2016. URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/manisha-sinha/it-feels-like-the-fall-of_b_12947676.html
Steigmann-Gall, Richard. “Star-spangled fascism: American interwar political extremism in comparative perspective.” Social History 42, no. 1 (2017): 94-119. URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03071022.2016.1256592?scroll=top&needAccess=true&
Weitz, Eric D. “Weimar Germany and Donald Trump.” Tablet, 18 July 2016. URL: http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/207665/weimar-germany-and-donald-trump
Young, Ralph. “A historical take on the White baclkash that fueled Donald Trump’s victory.” Truthout, 14 November 2016. URL: http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/38371-a-historical-take-on-the-white-backlash-that-fueled-donald-trump-s-victory
The Split Left
Derber, Charles. “Facing Down Trump's Demagoguery: Lessons From Weimar Germany.” Truth-out, 22 July 2016. URL: http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/36938-facing-down-trump-s-demagoguery-lessons-from-weimar-germany
Meyerson, Harold. “Bernie, Hillary, and the Ghost of Ernst Thalmann.” The American Prospect, 13 July 2016. URL: http://prospect.org/article/bernie-hillary-and-ghost-ernst-thalmann
Questioning Fascism and Normalizing Fascism
“America’s alt-right learns to speak Nazi: ‘Lügenpresse’. The Economist, 26 November 2016.
Linguistic history of the ‘lying press’.
“Normalizing Fascists.” The Conversation, 11 December 2016. URL: http://theconversation.com/normalizing-fascists-69613.
“How to cover the rise of a political leader who’s left a paper trail of anti-constitutionalism, racism and the encouragement of violence? Does the press take the position that its subject acts outside the norms of society? Or does it take the position that someone who wins a fair election is by definition “normal,” because his leadership reflects the will of the people? These are the questions that confronted the U.S. press after the ascendance of fascist leaders in Italy and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s.”
Foster, John Bellamy, “Neofacism in the White House” Monthly Review volume 68, issue 11, April 2017. URL: https://monthlyreview.org/2017/04/01/neofascism-in-the-white-house/
Faiola, Anthony and Stephanie Kirchner. “In Germany, the language of Nazism is no longer buried in the past.” The Washington Post, 9 December 2016. URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/in-germany-the-language-of-nazism-is-no-longer-buried-in-the-past/2016/12/09/d70bce74-bc85-11e6-ae79-bec72d34f8c9_story.html?utm_term=.e9b3589e70b5.
Explores both the historic and contemporary use of terms “Lügenpresse, Volksverräter, Umvolkung,” in a linguistic argument which demonstrates that the language of Nazism is no longer embedded in the past.
Green, Dominic. “The Elusive Definition of ‘Fascist.’” The Atlantic, 18 December 2016. URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/12/fascism-populism-presidential-election/510668/?utm_source=atlfb
Green makes the argument that “fascism” is not the proper word for the current political moment or climate; begins an overview of a cultural and historical understanding of fascism. Green argues “If the current wave of American populism has an economic cause, it’s not the collapse of an economy, as in Weimar Germany in the 1920s or in modern Greece, but the unequal distribution of gains and losses in a period of economic growth. The mainstream parties are victims of Alexis de Tocqueville’s “revolution of rising expectations.”
Kennedy, Paul. “American Fascism: It Can’t Happen Here?” CBC Radio, Ideas with Paul Kennedy, 28 October 2016. URL: http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/american-fascism-it-can-t-happen-here-1.3824591
From CBC Radio: “Donald Trump has been called a buffoon, an entertainer, a circus clown. He's also been called a fascist. But he's aiming to called Mr. President. What does the Trump campaign, and the voters it's mobilized, have in common with Fascism, not only in Europe but in America's own dark past?” Paul Kennedy discusses these issues with Dalia Fahmy (Professor of Political Science at Long Island University in Brooklyn), Adam Gopnik (staff writer for The New Yorker), Charlotte Canning (Professor of Performance as Public Practice, University of Texas at Austin), and Chris Vials (Director of American Studies, Department of English at the University of Connecticut).
Korman, Jonathan. “How fascism accumulates power by testing people.” Storify, November 2016. URL: https://storify.com/miniver/how-fascism-accumulates-power-by-testing-people
Rosenberg, Paul. “The moral foundations of fascism: Warring psychological theories struggle to make sense of Hitler, Mussolini and you-know-who.” Salon, 4 December 2016. URL: http://www.salon.com/2016/12/04/the-moral-foundations-of-fascism-warring-psychological-theories-struggle-to-make-sense-of-hitler-mussolini-and-you-know-who/
Singh, Lakshmi and Deborah Lipstadt. “The risks of normalizing the so-called Alt-Right.” All Things Considered, 27 November 2016. URL: http://www.npr.org/2016/11/27/503520818/the-risks-of-normalizing-the-so-called-alt-right
Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt discusses Holocaust deniers, and the similarities she sees in media coverage of the so-called alt-right movement, which has been associated with white nationalism.
Teitelbaum, Benjamin. “Labeling right in the age of Trump.” Oxford University Press Blog, 13 January 2017. URL: http://blog.oup.com/2017/01/labeling-nationalism-age-trump/
The Far Right, the Alt-Right, and Fascism in Popular Culture
Bernstein, Joseph. “In 2015, the dark forces of the Internet became a counterculture.” Buzzfeed Tech, 23 December 2015. URL: https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/in-2015-the-dark-forces-of-the-internet-became-a-countercult
Campbell, Caroline. “Mainstreaming Extremism: The Language of Suffering and Reemption in Interwar France.” The History in Question, 11 April, 2017. URL: http://thehistoryinquestion.com/uncategorized/mainstreaming-extremism-the-language-of-suffering-and-redemption-in-interwar-france/
CBC News, “Anti-Semitic graffiti spray-painted on Machzikei Hadas synagogue (Ottawa),” 17 November 2016. URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/swastika-machzikei-hadas-synagogue-1.3854868
Freed, Benjamin. “‘Alt-Right’ Trolls Are Targeting DC’s DIY Music Houses”. The Washingtonian, 19 December 2016. URL: https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/12/19/alt-right-trolls-targeting-dcs-diy-music-houses/
Gray, Rosie. “How 2015 fueled the rise of the freewheeling, white nationalist alt right movement.” Buzzfeed Politics, 27 December 2016. URL: https://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/how-2015-fueled-the-rise-of-the-freewheeling-white-nationali
Heer, Jeet. “The Internet Archive is building a back-up to defend itself against Trump. In Canada.” New Republic, 30 November 2016. URL: https://newrepublic.com/minutes/139055/internet-archive-building-back-up-defend-trump-canada
Joyrich, Lynne. “Reality TV Trumps Politics.” The Contemporary Condition, 29 November 2016. URL: http://contemporarycondition.blogspot.ca/2016/11/reality-tv-trumps-politics.html?m=1
Spanos, Brittany. “John Legend: ‘Donald Trump Saying Hitler-Level Things in Public.’” The Rolling Stone, 17 November 2016. URL: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/john-legend-trump-saying-hitler-level-things-in-public-w451138
Ugwu, Reggie. “How Electronic Music made by Neo-Nazis Soundtracks the Alt-Right.” Buzzfeed News, 13 December 2016. URL: https://www.buzzfeed.com/reggieugwu/fashwave
An exploration of Fashwave (popular music genres which are celebrating and promoting white nationalism and the alt-right), primarily through amateur music-sharing applications like SoundCloud. The popularity of Fashwave spiked with the candidacy of Donald Trump, allowing it to fully develop and form as a music movement.
Wong, Julia Carrie. “Facebook temporarily bans author after he calls Trump fans 'nasty fascistic lot'”. The Guardian, 30 December 2016. URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/30/facebook-temporary-ban-kevin-sessums-trump-supporters?CMP=fb_us
A Journalist was temporarily banned from Facebook after a post in which he called Trump supporters “a nasty fascistic lot”, in the latest example of the social media platform’s censorship of journalists.
Populism
Ash, Timothy Garton. “Populists are out to divide use. They must be stopped.” The Guardian, 11 November 2016. URL: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/11/populists-us
Balibar, Etienne. “Populism and Counter-Populism in the Atlantic Mirror.” Open Democracy, 2 January 2017. URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/etienne-balibar/populism-and-counter-populism-in-atlantic-mirror.
[From link]: “There are three major lessons for we Europeans in the US presidential elections. They necessarily lead us towards the imagining of a transnational counter-populism.”
Abromeit, John, York Norman, Gary Marotta and Bridget Maria Chesterton, eds. Transformations of Populism in Europe and the Americas: History and Recent Tendencies. London: Bloomsbury, 2015. URL: http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/transformations-of-populism-in-europe-and-the-americas-9781474225236/
In three parts, the contributors explore the history of populism in different regions, theories of populism and recent populist movements. Taken together, the contributions included in this book represent the most comprehensive and wide-ranging study of the topic to date. Questions addressed include: What are the 'essential' characteristics of populism?; Is it important to distinguish between left- and right-wing populism?; How can the transformation of populist movements be explained?
D’Eramo, Marco. “Populism and the New Oligarchy.” Trans. Gregory Elliott. The New Left Review 82 (2013): https://newleftreview.org/II/82/marco-d-eramo-populism-and-the-new-oligarchy
D’Eramo argues: “In short, as the label [of populism] comes to be applied to the most diverse movements, the phenomenon itself has become increasingly elusive. It would be easier to list what has not been defined as populist. At the same time, as we shall see, the social category from which it has been derived historically, ‘the people’, has all but vanished from political discourse. This essay will offer an explanatory hypothesis for the trajectories of both ‘populism’ and ‘the people’ [...]”
Habermas, Jurgen. “For a democratic polarisation: How to pull the ground from under right-wing populists.” Social Europe, 17 November 2016. URL: https://www.socialeurope.eu/2016/11/democratic-polarisation-pull-ground-right-wing-populism/#
Kohut, Meredith. “How Does Populism Turn Authoritarian? Venezuela is a Case in Point.” The New York Times, 1 April, 2017. URL:
Mouffe, Chantal. “The populist moment,” democraciaAbierta (la seccion latina de openDemocracy), 21 November 2016. URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/democraciaabierta/chantal-mouffe/populist-moment
Mudde, Cas, ed. The Populist Radical Right: A Reader. New York: Routledge, 2017.
[From the website]: The populist radical right is one of the most studied political phenomena in the social sciences, counting hundreds of books and thousands of articles. This is the first reader to bring together the most seminal articles and book chapters on the contemporary populist radical right in western democracies. It has a broad regional and topical focus and includes work that has made an original theoretical contribution to the field, which make them less time-specific.
Mudde, Cas. “We are thinking about Populism wrong: And it’s costing us” Huffington Post 20 March 2017, URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/populism-wrong-cost_us_58cfeb03e4b0be71dcf63e6c?ncid=engmodushpmg00000003
Cas Mudde on definitions of populism.
Müller, Jan-Werner. “Capitalism in One Family.” 38, no. 21 (1 December 2016): pp. 10-14. URL: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n23/jan-werner-muller/capitalism-in-one-family
Müller, Jan-Werner. What is Populism? Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. URL: http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15615.html
From the link above. “In this groundbreaking volume, Jan-Werner Müller argues that at populism's core is a rejection of pluralism. Populists will always claim that they and they alone represent the people and their true interests. Müller also shows that, contrary to conventional wisdom, populists can govern on the basis of their claim to exclusive moral representation of the people: if populists have enough power, they will end up creating an authoritarian state that excludes all those not considered part of the proper "people." The book proposes a number of concrete strategies for how liberal democrats should best deal with populists and, in particular, how to counter their claims to speak exclusively for ‘the silent majority’ or ‘the real people.’”
Müller, Jan-Werner. “Trump, Erdoǧan, Farage: The attractions of populism for politicians, the dangers for democracy.” The Guardian, 2 September 2016. URL: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/02/trump-erdogan-farage-the-attractions-of-populism-for-politicians-the-dangers-for-democracy
Argues for the need to explore and define what populism truly is, and the ways in which in manifests - especially in our contemporary age. Müller argues “The conventional wisdom that populists want to bring politics closer to the people or even clamour for direct democracy could not be more mistaken. They do say that they are the only ones who care for the “people’s will”, but they are hardly interested in an open-ended, bottom-up process where citizens debate policy issues. What populists take to be the people’s real will is derived from what they stipulate to be the real people.”
Webber, Douglas. “Hail the Populist Counter-Revolution!” INSEAD Blog, 10 November 2016. URL: http://knowledge.insead.edu/blog/insead-blog/hail-the-populist-counter-revolution-5032?utm_source=INSEAD+Knowledge&utm_campaign=241d0df040-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e079141ebb-241d0df040-249931549
Williams, Rowan. “A nervous breakdown in the body politic.” New Statesman, 1 May 2016. URL: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2016/05/nervous-breakdown-body-politic.
YouTube: “Albrecht Koschorke: Populisten und Liberalen.” YouTube. URL: Albrecht Koschorke: Populisten und Liberale (2/8)
Beyond North America and Trumpism: International and Transnational Discussions
Aisch, Gregor, Adam Pearce, and Bryant Rousseau. “How far is Europe swinging to the right?” The New York Times, updated 5 December 2016. URL: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/22/world/europe/europe-right-wing-austria-hungary.html?_r=0
Amid a migrant crisis, sluggish economic growth and growing disillusionment with the European Union, right-wing parties in a growing number of European countries have made electoral gains. The right-wing parties included below range across a wide policy spectrum, from populist and nationalist to far-right neo-fascist.
Ash, Timothy Garten. “Is Europe Disintegrating?” New York Review of Books, 19 January 2017. URL: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/01/19/is-europe-disintegrating/
Borenstein, Ellot. “American Fascism: Lessons from Russia,” The Huffington Post, 21 November 2016. URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eliot-borenstein/american-fascism-lessons-_b_13131630.html
Campbell, Caroline. Review: Transnational Neofascism in France and Italy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.” H-France Review vol 16, no. 244 (2016). URL: http://www.h-france.net/vol16reviews/vol16no244campbell.pdf
McAuly, James. “The dark history at the heart of the French election” The Washington Post 6 May 2017, URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/the-dark-history-at-the-heart-of-the-french-election/2017/05/05/d31235ee-301e-11e7-a335-fa0ae1940305_story.html?utm_term=.b25bd347bd4e&wpisrc=al_alert-COMBO-world%252Bnation&wpmk=1
Article that investigates how the past of France and the French empire was used during the 2017 election campaing.
Nowak, Marysia and Becky Branford. “France Elections: What makes Marine le Pen far right?” BBC News, 12 January 2017. URL: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38321401
Meisner, Matthias und Laura Hofmann. “Brandrede in Dresden: Der totale Höcke.” 17 January 2017. URL: http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/brandrede-in-dresden-der-totale-hoecke/19267154.html
Menon, Dilip M. “The Emperor's new khadi: Understanding Narendra Modi's monarchical frame of history.” Scroll.in, 17 January 2017. URL: https://scroll.in/article/826897/the-emperors-new-khadi-understanding-narendra-modis-monarchical-frame-of-history
Oltermann, Philip. “AfD politician says Germany should stop atoning for Nazi crimes.” The Guardian, 18 January 2017. URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/18/afd-politician-says-germany-should-stop-atoning-for-nazi-crimes
Sessions, Jennifer. “Why the French Presidential candidates are arguing about their colonial history.” The Conversation, 18 April 2017. URL: https://theconversation.com/why-the-french-presidential-candidates-are-arguing-about-their-colonial-history-75372
Sierakowski, Sławomir. “The Five Lessons of Populist Rule.” Project Syndicate, 2 January 2017. URL: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/lesson-of-populist-rule-in-poland-by-slawomir-sierakowski-2017-01
Reviews the first year of populist rule in Poland before Trump’s inauguration as POTUS on January 20th. Sierakowski writes “the liberals were wrong. [The Law and Justice Party] (PiS) has transformed itself from an ideological nullity into a party that has managed to introduce shocking changes with record speed and efficiency. Other countries currently anticipating populist rule should take note of its key hallmarks.” He argues that those who choose to resist populism must come to terms with the fact that the “truth is not enough.”
Simmons, Adam. “Uncovering the African presence in Medieval Europe.” The Public Medievalist, 27 April 2017. URL: http://www.publicmedievalist.com/uncovering-african/
Stedman Jones, Gareth. “Brexit in Context: Reflections on the History of Referenda” Historians’ Watch: Histories of the Present 3 May 2017, URL: http://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/brexit-in-context-reflections-on-the-history-of-referenda/
Tugal, Cihan. “Turkey coup aftermath: between neo-fascism and Bonapartism.” Open Democracy, 18 July 2016. URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/cihan-tugal/turkey-coup-aftermath-between-neo-fascism-and-bonapartism
[From Link]: “Predictions about the consequences of Turkey’s failed coup focus on how it fulfils Erdoğan’s desire for an omnipotent presidency. But the danger that awaits is much greater than that.”
Gambetti, Zeynep. “Ankara’s war on peace.” Open Democracy, 17 October 2016. URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/zeynep-gambetti/ankara%27s-war-on-peace
[From link]: “Officials have insinuated that Kurds might have blown themselves up on purpose. What the quasi-sacred term ‘terrorism’ does today is to curb the will and the ability to resist arbitrary rule.”
Twyman, Joe. “Trump, Brexit, Front National, AfD: branches of the same tree.” YouGov, 16 November 2017. URL: https://yougov.co.uk/news/2016/11/16/trump-brexit-front-national-afd-branches-same-tree/
Study demonstrates that in eight out of twelve countries, almost half of voters (if not more) hold authoritarian and populist views; there is a “very real chance that the rise of authoritarian populism could be the defining political phenomenon of the next decade.” Article explores the implications of this sentiment in Britain and Europe.
Whence Liberalism? Declining Democracy and Next Steps
Kutchinsky, Serena. “Yanis Varoufakis: After Donald Trump’s awful victory, the left must be more ambitious.” New Statesman, 13 November 2016. URL: https://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2016/11/15/new-statesman-interview-the-lefts-duty-after-trumps-awful-victory/
Mbembe, Achille. “The Age of humanism is ending.” Mail & Guardian, 22 December 2016. URL: http://mg.co.za/article/2016-12-22-00-the-age-of-humanism-is-ending
Argues that, as the result of the emergence of new media, sublimation is no longer necessary, thus resulting in the dislocation from language. Mbembe demonstrates that the dislocation of language and sublimation from form and meaning can explain the growing anti-humanist sentiment that “goes hand in hand with a general contempt for democracy.”
Mishra, Pankaj. “The Divided States: Trump’s Inauguration and how democracy has failed.” The Guardian, 13 January 2017. URL: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/13/divided-states-trump-america-failed-democracy
Read, Min. “What Next for Liberalism?” Democracy, 11 no. 43 (winter 2017). URL: http://democracyjournal.org/magazine/43/what-next-for-liberalism/
Read questions what liberalism will do in the age of Trump; concludes that, for the long run, liberalism will “have to moderate some of its ambitions [...] more wrenchingly still, liberalism must come to terms with the fact that the base on which it has rested since the 1940s in this election fell almost completely apart.”
Runciman, David. “Is this how democracy ends?” London Review of Books, 38 no. 23 (1 December 2016): pp. 5-6. URL: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n23/david-runciman/is-this-how-democracy-ends
Effects on Academia and Academic Responses
Bell, David A. “Donald Trump Is Making the Great Man Theory of History Great Again.” Foreign Policy, 12 January 2017. URL:https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/01/12/donald-trump-is-making-the-great-man-theory-of-history-great-again/
Blum-Ross, “Ethnographic approaches to understanding Trump/Brexit/new rise of conservatism.” URL: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yA-qV1Qd8SCmOlmaUZ5F2HVnamsnv9Smea3qRUPSzhM/edit
Connolly, N.D.B. and Keisha N. Blain. “Trump Syllabus 2.0.” Public Books, 28 June 2016. URL: http://www.publicbooks.org/feature/trump-syllabus-20
[From link]: “This course, assembled by historians N. D. B. Connolly and Keisha N. Blain, includes suggested readings and other resources from more than one hundred scholars in a variety of disciplines. The course explores Donald Trump’s rise as a product of the American lineage of racism, sexism, nativism, and imperialism. It offers an introduction to the deep currents of American political culture that produced what many simply call “Trumpism”: personal and political gain marred by intolerance, derived from wealth, and rooted in the history of segregation, sexism, and exploitation.”
“Fascism Study Guide.” 11 November 2016. URL: https://docs.google.com/document/d/165fmtBBZEN16GyKu8MUwbj2dEsHeGk6zC8AwrvOBX44/edit
Gust, Onni. “The Brexit Syllabus: British History for Brexiters.” History Workshop, Histories of the Present, 5 September 2016. URL: http://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/the-brexit-syllabus-british-history-for-brexiteers/
Literary Hub. “50 Necessary Books for your anger and your action.” Literary Hub, 14 November 2016. URL: http://lithub.com/50-necessary-books-for-your-anger-and-your-action/
Myers, David N. “The function of the university in the age of Trump.” Jewish Journal, 15 December 2016. URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/david_n_myers/article/the_function_of_the_university_in_the_age_of_trump
Myers explores concrete ways in which academia and the university can be the central line of defense in the age of Trump - including the roles of public policy officials, health economists, legal scholars, political scientists, and philosophers. Myers also urges that “all of this vigilance does not mean that the classroom should become a bully pulpit for one ideology or another.”
Pearce, Katie. “Understanding Trumpism: Syllabus co-compiled by Johns Hopkins historian goes viral post-election.” HUB: Johns Hopkins University, 9 December 2016. URL: http://hub.jhu.edu/2016/12/09/connolly-trump-syllabus/
N.D.B. Connolly works with fellow scholars to crowd-source a reading list; results in “Trump Syllabus 2.0.” Defines Trumpism as “personal and political gain marred by intolerance, derived from wealth, and rooted in the history of segregation, sexism, and exploitation.”
Professor Watchlist. URL: http://professorwatchlist.org/
Narratives of Resistance, Action, and Survival
Cole, Teju. “A Time for Refusal.” The New York Times Magazine, 11 November 2016. URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/magazine/a-time-for-refusal.html
Curtis, Adam. HyperNormalisation. Thought Maybe (2016). URL: http://thoughtmaybe.com/hypernormalisation/ . 2 hrs 46 minutes.
[From website]: wades through the culmination of forces that have driven this culture into mass uncertainty, confusion, spectacle and simulation. Where events keep happening that seem crazy, inexplicable and out of control—from Donald Trump to Brexit, to the War in Syria, mass immigration, extreme disparity in wealth, and increasing bomb attacks in the West—this film shows a basis to not only why these chaotic events are happening, but also why we, as well as those in power, may not understand them. We have retreated into a simplified, and often completely fake version of the world. And because it is reflected all around us, ubiquitous, we accept it as normal. This epic narrative of how we got here spans over 40 years, with an extraordinary cast of characters—the Assad dynasty, Donald Trump, Henry Kissinger, Patti Smith, early performance artists in New York, President Putin, Japanese gangsters, suicide bombers, Colonel Gaddafi and the Internet. HyperNormalisation weaves these historical narratives back together to show how today’s fake and hollow world was created and is sustained. This shows that a new kind of resistance must be imagined and actioned, as well as an unprecedented reawakening in a time where it matters like never before.
Gessen, Masha. “Autocracy: Rules for Survival.” The New York Review, 10 November 2016. URL: http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/10/trump-election-autocracy-rules-for-survival/
Leubecher, Marcel. “In dieser Regierungsstudie wurden sogar Gesprächspartner erfunden”. Welt 24 22 April 2017, URL: In-dieser-Regierungsstudie-wurden-sogar-Gespraechspartner-erfunden.html
Sneeringer, Julie. #archivethis. Twitter archive. URL: https://twitter.com/hashtag/archivethis?src=hash
Snyder, Timothy. “What you - yes, you - can do to save America from tyranny.” Dallas News, 21 November 2016. URL: http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2016/11/21/learning-history-can-save-america-tyranny
Southern Poverty Law Centre (SPLC), “Hate Map.” URL: https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map
Steigmann-Gall, Richard. “How To Resist The Trump Administration: Lessons From Nazi Germany.” The Huffington Post, 5 January 2017. URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/586dd1f5e4b070f5a180d64f?timestamp=1483629207981
Yglesias, Matthew. “We have 100 days to stop Donald Trump from systemically corrupting our institutions.” Vox, 17 November 2016. URL: http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/17/13626514/trump-systemic-corruption
Uncategorized
Hamza, Agon, and Frank Ruda. “An interview with Moishe Postone: That Capital has limits does not mean that it will collapse.” Crisis and Critique 3, no, 3 (2016): 501-517. URL: http://crisiscritique.org/political11/Agon%20Hamza%20&%20Frank%20Ruda%20Interview.pdf
Macwilliams, Matthew. “Who Decides When the Party Doesn’t? Authoritarian Voters and the Rise of Donald Trump. Political Science and Politics 49, no. 4 (October 2016): pp. 716-721. URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ps-political-science-and-politics/article/who-decides-when-the-party-doesnt-authoritarian-voters-and-the-rise-of-donald-trump/8751AFAC70288BD234A8305F4687B1C7/core-reader
“Trump Time Capsule.” Medium, 20 November 2016. URL: https://medium.com/@motocollard/trump-time-capsule-3b4a916fc691#.ad7etefpi
Right-wing Authoritarianism Scale. URL: http://personality-testing.info/tests/RWAS/
Robinson, Nick. “Authoritarian Democracy: A Playbook.” Dissent Magazine, 14 November 2016. URL: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/authoritarian-democracy-playbook-modi-erdogan-trump
Wendland, Anna Veronika. “Amerika-Obsession und Teilungsmanie.” Euromaiden Press, 13 Februar 2015. URL: http://de.euromaidanpress.com/2015/02/13/anna-veronika-wendland-amerika-obsession-und-teilungsmanie/
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