In the MAGA aesthetic, cruelty appears in multiple registers, most visibly in the “Mar-a-Lago face”: plastic smiles, exaggerated cosmetic enhancement, and beauty-pageant…
What is most revealing about the MAGA aesthetic is its studied ugliness. On one side stands the grotesque excess of beauty-pageant femininity,…
A university that confuses comfort with care, risks becoming an institution of managed ignorance or a laboratory for indoctrination. Iam increasingly unsettled…
Weaponizing Distraction: Spectacle as Governance Under the Trump administration, the politics of diversion has hardened into a governing strategy and been normalized…
White House adviser Stephen Miller seems torn from the darkest archive of the 1930s. His ideological fever, spittle-laced tirades, compulsive lying, and…
Appeals to neutrality, civility and “balance” can easily become mechanisms for silencing critique and avoiding responsibility. ascism does not crash onto the stage…
Introduction The horrors of fascism have returned have returned, not as ghosts, but as a plague, fueled by racial hatred and historical…
America’s fascist dress rehearsal including torture, dehumanization, and the collapse of democratic norms are no longer theoretical—they’re preparing for the opening act.…
Fascism thrives in societies that grow desensitized to violence. Once cruelty is normalized, political life collapses into a spectacle of force, lies,…
Recently, Donald Trump shared a video known as the “Flying King”– an AI-generated spectacle in which he pilots a fighter plane emblazoned…
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