Christopher Hitchens ⚔️

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2jQlZqJD4lk

WOTM: Mike Licona and the Christian Totalitarians

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMbzcm2HQss

Kamala Harris has MAGA world freaking out about demons and end times

Trump's most prominent boosters have been speaking of an imminent totalitarian government, end times and literal biblical demons...

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/kamala-harris-maga-jezebel-apocalypse-rcna164922

Chris Murphy: America Has Problems That the Free Market Can't Solve - The Atlantic

The postwar neoliberal economic project is nearing its end. The question is who will write the last chapter, the Democrats or the totalitarians?

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/democrats-should-reject-neoliberalism/671850/

The Philosophers: Loneliness and totalitarianism (Sean Illing; Vox Conversations podcast

Sean Illing talks with professor Lyndsey Stonebridge about the philosopher Hannah Arendt, author of The Origins of Totalitarianism. Arendt might be best known for coining the phrase “the banality of evil” in her reporting on the trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961, but in this episode Sean and Lyndsey discuss Arendt's insights into the roots of mass movements, how her flight from Nazi occupation shaped her worldview, and how loneliness and isolation — which abound in our world today — can prepare a population for an authoritarian turn. The Philosophers is a new monthly series from Vox Conversations. Each episode will focus on a philosophical figure or school of thought from the past, and discuss how their ideas can help us make sense of our modern world and lives today.

Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling), Interviews writer, Vox Guest: Lyndsey Stonebridge (@lyndseystonebri), author; professor of humanities and human rights, University of Birmingham Works by Hannah Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), with the inclusion of the chapter "Ideology and Terror" in 1953; Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963); The Human Condition (1958); "Home to Roost: A Bicentennial Address" (1975); "Personal Responsibility under Dictatorship" (1964) Other References: The Judicial Imagination: Writing After Nuremberg by Lyndsey Stonebridge (Edinburgh University Press; 2011) Placeless People: Writings, Rights, and Refugees by Lyndsey Stonebridge (Oxford; 2018) Thinking Like Hannah Arendt by Lyndsey Stonebridge (Jonathan Cape; forthcoming 2022) "A 1951 book about totalitarianism is flying off the shelves. Here's why" by Sean Illing (Vox; updated Jan. 30, 2019) "Where loneliness can lead" by Samantha Rose Hill (Aeon; Oct. 16, 2020) The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman (1950) Immanuel Kant, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (1785) for the "categorical imperative"
Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-5sgp8-1383dba9

After Tiananmen, China Conquers History Itself

Young people question the value of knowledge, a victory for Beijing 30 years after the crackdown on student protests...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/02/opinion/tiananmen-square-china.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

The Path to Authoritarianism: Historian Timothy Snyder

Historian Timothy Snyder explains how Trump's world of fiction is undermining our democracy and how we can fight back.
Interview:
https://youtu.be/qZ-bifYqK_Q

China seeks to wage ‘unremitting struggle’ against the country’s intellectuals - The Washington Post: Opinion

President Xi Jinping should listen to the words of Xu Zhangrun. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/china-seeks-to-wage-unremitting-struggle-against-the-countrys-intellectuals/2018/08/11/304c3228-9b49-11e8-843b-36e177f3081c_story.html

Trump Labels News Media 'Enemy Of The American People' (Anthony Brooks, On Point)

A president like no other has changed the way the media covers the White House. Is it dangerous? Is it fair?
Interview:
http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2018/07/31/trump-labels-news-media-enemy-of-the-american-people

We’re Not Headed for Nazi Germany, but We’re Also Not Headed Anywhere Good - Slate:

Warning signs to watch for, from a leading scholar on modern Germany. ....
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/07/why-comparing-trumps-america-to-nazi-germany-misses-the-point.html

Trump Locks Up Immigrant Kids, but Not Bankers or Polluters - The Daily Beast

Laws are never meant to be enforce absolutely and without exception. That is totalitarianism, not democracy. ....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-locks-up-immigrant-kids-but-not-bankers-or-polluters

The Banana States of America - The Washington Post: Opinion

We're living in a tyranny of buffoonery. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-banana-states-of-america/2018/05/21/6ebee614-5d36-11e8-9ee3-49d6d4814c4c_story.html

Chris Hedges 2017 (Update 12/15/2017) - [NEW] On The Fall Of America

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ao86YEeQXk&feature=youtu.be

Trump judicial nominee invoked Nazi Germany in describing treatment of Christians in US - CNNPolitics

President Donald Trump's nominee for a federal judgeship in Texas invoked religious crackdowns by the Nazis in Germany and other totalitarian regimes to describe the treatment of Christians in the US during three interviews in 2013 and 2014. Jeff Mateer, who currently serves as the first assistant attorney general of Texas, is nominated for a lifetime appointment on the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.....
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/18/politics/kfile-mateer-nazi-comparisons/index.html

How Totalitarianism Took Over Russia (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

Reporter Masha Gessen grew up in Russia. Left young when it was still the Soviet Union. Came back when there was an opening to democracy, and watched as Russia went the other way - to Vladimir Putin and what she now plainly calls totalitarianism. Why did that happen? What does it mean for Russians and for the world? For the United States in particular? This hour On Point: Mashsa Gessen goes deep on how totalitarianism reclaimed Russia. -- Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2017/10/02/masha-gessen-russia

A despot in disguise: one man’s mission to rip up democracy | George Monbiot | Opinion | The Guardian

James McGill Buchanan’s vision of totalitarian capitalism has infected public policy in the US. Now it’s being exported...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/19/despot-disguise-democracy-james-mcgill-buchanan-totalitarian-capitalism

The Religious Right Remains Fascinated With Russian Totalitarianism

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is a Religious Right group founded to oppose marriage equality. The Supreme Court upheld that concept in 2015, so NOM has closed up shop, right?

Well, no. Since that defeat, NOM has kept busy doing other things – like trying to make the United States more like Russia....
https://www.au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/the-religious-right-remains-fascinated-with-russian-totalitarianism

Bernie Sanders on Twitter:

In Trump's view people should ignore all the news except what comes directly from him. That is what totalitarianism is all about....
https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/833062287044808704