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Trump’s Crusade: Christian Nationalism and the Making of a Holy War

Israel and the United States are now at war with Iran, a conflict framed by both leaders through a stark and self-serving moral binary. In the words...

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Disappearing Bodies: Epstein, ICE, and the Hidden Architecture of Gangster Capitalism

Disappearance under neoliberal fascism does not operate through a single institutional or aesthetic form. Alongside the spectacular violence of ICE...

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MAGA Aesthetics and Fascist Power: Spectacles of White Supremacy

The United States is not merely awash in brutalizing and murderous acts of state-sanctioned violence. It is being restructured by them. The killings...

13.02.2026 150

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Domestic Terrorism in Plain Sight: White Supremacy, State Violence, and the Assault on Democracy

The United States is under siege, not by a foreign enemy, but by the Trump administration, which has transformed governance itself into a form of...

30.01.2026 10

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The Disconnected Present: Neoliberal Fascism and the Politics of Erasure

In this political climate, outrage is incessantly manufactured and then swiftly displaced, replaced by the next shock before the public can assemble...

19.01.2026 10

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The Disconnected Present: Neoliberal Fascism and the Politics of Erasure

In this political climate, outrage is incessantly manufactured and then swiftly displaced, replaced by the next shock before the public can assemble...

18.01.2026 20

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Higher Education in the Time of Fascist Plague

What is at stake is far more than a rejection of gangster capitalism and the global misery it produces. The deeper danger lies in recognizing that...

12.12.2025 7

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The Warning We Ignore at Our Peril: From El Salvador’s Dungeons to America’s Doorstep 

We inhabit a historical moment that resurrects, with chilling familiarity, the state terrorism once made visible under Hitler, Franco, Mussolini,...

21.11.2025 7

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Trump’s Politics of Defecation

Recently, Donald Trump shared a video known as the “Flying King”– an AI-generated spectacle in which he pilots a fighter plane emblazoned with...

28.10.2025 10

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Stephen Miller and the Making of the Fascist Subject

Orchestrated brutality reflected not only Miller’s ideology but also his personality. Even his former colleagues described him as insufferable,...

17.10.2025 10

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The Road to the Camps: Echoes of a Fascist Past

The irony is unbearable. Trump has saturated public life in lies, turned immigrants and Black citizens into targets of contempt, and made corruption...

26.09.2025 10

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Trump’s Theater of Cruelty

Trump’s obsession with violence is more than a grotesque fixation on power and cruelty; it is a commentary on politics as pathology, a grim theater...

12.09.2025 10

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The Democratic Party: Architects of Cowardice, Accomplices to Fascism

The Democratic Party has forfeited every claim to moral and political credibility. It is not a bulwark against fascism but an accomplice to it, a...

08.09.2025 20

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Domestic Terrorism and Spectacularized Violence in Trump’s Warfare State

Trump’s authoritarian obsession with violence and punishment is evident in his relentless drive to criminalize dissent and weaponize the state...

29.08.2025 20

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The Silent Cries of Gaza: A Legacy of Innocence Lost and the Urgent Call to Confront Genocide

In Gaza, the atrocities visited upon children are unspeakable, a violence that staggers the imagination. Omer Bartov, a distinguished scholar of...

25.07.2025 10

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Resisting the Deadly Language of American Fascism

In the age of expanding fascism, the power of language is not only fragile but increasingly threatened. As Toni Morrison has noted, “language is not...

11.07.2025 10

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Unmasking Fascism: Edward Said’s Pedagogy of Wakefulness in an Age of Educational Repression

For Said, intellectuals--those who are alive to thinking critically and acting bravely-- must engage critically with the world, confronting its...

27.06.2025 10

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Against the Erasure Machine: Scholasticide, Memory and the Power of Pedagogy

In an age where culture is the primary battlefield, authoritarianism thrives on ignorance, historical amnesia and the brutal aesthetics of cruelty,...

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Against the Erasure Machine: Scholasticide, Memory and the Power of Pedagogy

In an age where culture is the primary battlefield, authoritarianism thrives on ignorance, historical amnesia and the brutal aesthetics of cruelty,...

30.05.2025 9

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Tears of Blood: Eugenics, Disposability, and the War on Children

Violence, soaked in blood and stripped of shame, has become the defining language of governance in the age of Trump and the global resurgence of...

23.05.2025 9

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The Politics of Cleansing

All across the United States, people are rising up--refusing to be complicit in the slow-motion annihilation of democracy. They march against a regime...

18.04.2025 10

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Democracy Disappeared

We live in an age when disappearance is no longer a metaphor. It is both a threat and a governing principle. Under the Trump regime, language is no...

11.04.2025 10

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The Fire This Time

we are witnessing a form of ideological cleansing—a scorched-earth assault on critical consciousness. Education, both public and higher, is under...

04.04.2025 10

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Abducting Bodies, Silencing Dissent: Mahmoud Khalil and the Rise of State Terror

The abduction of Mahmoud Khalil is not an isolated event—it is a chilling testament to the authoritarian turn in the United States, where dissent is...

21.03.2025 10

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Trump’s Reign of Cruelty

Neoliberalism has always been more than an economic project; it is a political and educational weapon designed to erode social solidarity and...

17.02.2025 10

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Trump’s Theater of Cruelty

Donald Trump’s re-election marks not just a political turning point but the ascendance of a corpse-like order, a nation stiffening under the weight...

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Bertrand Russell: Redefining the Public Intellectual in an Era of Rising Authoritarianism

Within days of his return to office, President Donald Trump unleashed a chilling display of authoritarianism, providing a stark reminder of the...

24.01.2025 10

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Beyond the Illusion: The Dark Dream of a Totalitarian Empire

Before even taking office, Trump has conjured grotesque visions of what he once called the dreams of a “unified Reich.” His delusions of grandeur,...

11.01.2025 9

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Beyond the Illusion: The Dark Dreams of a Unified Reich

Before even taking office, Trump has conjured grotesque visions of what he once called the dreams of a “unified Reich.” His delusions of grandeur,...

10.01.2025 9

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