David Livingstone Smith

Reckoning With Their Deaths This morning, I awoke to nothing.

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12 characteristics of fascism according to scholars of history.

I’d say MAGA is 12 for 12. You?

The Secretary of Homeland Security Was Not Fired for…. The murder of Ms.

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Just How Fascist is the Trump Regime? A Checklist

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What About the Children? There is the world. Our world. The events, the times, the stuff of our lives. Going There is where I reflect on the things that strike me.

What About the Children?
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A Meditation on Helplessness And so it is, another day, another front.

A Meditation on Helplessness
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Promises Made Were Never Meant to Be Kept The experts are all reciting the so-called promise of “no more forever wars.” Did such thoughtful people believe that it was a real promise?

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The Psychology of Fascism, Part Three: Sigmund Freud's Analysis of Mass Psychology

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No. Linkoping.

I will be happy to be in Sweden next academic year--albeit only for a year.

The Psychology of Fascism, Part 2 Wilhelm Reich and The Mass Psychology of Fascism

The Psychology of Fascism, Part 2
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Something Has Gone "Afoot," Racially Vini Jr. celebrated too much?

Something Has Gone "Afoot," Racially
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Where Are The Women? De-Prince arrested for "misconduct in public office"

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Mazel tov!

Speaking Through Fear There is the world. Our world. The events, the times, the stuff of our lives. Going There is where I reflect on the things that strike me.

Subrena Smith's message for the year ahead: Speaking Through Fear.

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Weeding Out Race How Plants Can Help Us Think About Race

"Weeding Out Race." Reposting this, in light of the current political atmosphere. davidlivingstonesmith.substack.com/p/weeding-ou...

What do you all think of these two potential titles for a crossover book about fascism. Which is better?
1. Fascist States (of Mind)
2. Ordinary Fascism

The Vileness Was Never Hidden He and you have been pretending that he wasn’t playing racist footsie.

The Vileness Was Never Hidden. Subrena Smith's powerful reflections on Trump.
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Simianization. Apes, Gender, Class, and Race (ed. Wulf D. Hund, Charles W. Mills, Silvia Sebastiani) In the course of a flood of ascriptions and assumptions, the ape stereotype evolved into a persistent marker of otherness. As the contributions to this volume of the Racism Analysis Yearbook show, its...

For the deep context of Trump's latest indignity, see SIMIANIZATION: Apes, Gender, Class, and Race
edited by Wulf D. Hund, Charles W. Mills,
Silvia Sebastiani, available for download here: www.academia.edu/16269162/Sim...

The last time politicians talked like Trump | David Livingstone Smith YouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas

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I have his book Soldaten

Art For and Against Dehumanization While I am busy being overwhelmed by the start of the spring semester and the horrible state of this country, I figured that I would spend a few moments writing a piece on the topic of art against deh...

Art For and Against Dehumanization
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what is the title/author?

Humanity Violated YouTube video by Philosophy Talk

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I use whatever I find most useful, written in the English language.

US House candidate buys nazis.us domain to redirect visitors to homeland security Mark Davis, running in Florida, says he bought domain because Republican party had gone ‘full fascist’

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Illinois friends

I'm not sure how much legality matters any more.