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Authoritarianism

  • authoritarianism LINKED TO PSYCHOPATHY–New Study

    The researchers found that heightened interpersonal and affective psychopathic traits were positively associated with social dominance orientation and right-wing authoritarianism, which in turn were linked to increased anti-immigrant attitudes towards Middle-Eastern refugees and distrust of minorities. Continue reading

    authoritarianism LINKED TO PSYCHOPATHY–New Study

  • Hard terror, soft terror

    The acts of radicalized “Jihadists” often hits our front pages and tablet news apps. It is clearly brutal. It is clearly intolerant. It clearly appalling. Yet alongside all of this clear terroristic activity are other forms of violence and inhospitable behavior.… Continue reading

  • Trump and American #authoritarianism

    Take activated authoritarians from across the partisan spectrum and the growing cadre of threatened non-authoritarians, then add them to the base of Republican general election voters, and the potential electoral path to a Trump presidency becomes clearer. Source: Donald Trump… Continue reading

  • The Ghost of Authoritarianism in the Age of the Shutdown

    …The American political, cultural, and economic landscape is inhabited by the renewed return of authoritarianism evident in the ideologies of religious and secular certainty that legitimate the reign of economic Darwinism, the unchecked power of capital, the culture of fear… Continue reading

    The Ghost of Authoritarianism in the Age of the Shutdown