Marina Warner on the power of fables in a post-truth era of President Trump and fake news
Tag: Donald Trump
Democracy and Disaster: Pakistan in Bangladesh (1970) and Trump in Puerto Rico (2017)
Naomi Hossain compares President Trump’s handling of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017 to the Pakistani government’s response to the 1970 Bhola Cyclone in Bangladesh, to examine the implications of disaster for legitimacy, imperial power and democracy.
100 Days after the Women’s March: More Reflections
Protesters from the US, UK, Canada and Ireland reflect on the Women’s March of 21 January 2017.
Executive Order: Trump playing the ‘nation’ card
Exclusion has, in fact, been central to the configuration of political power in the US and in other white settler states.
Autocracy in America won’t come with jackboots
Stephen Heathorn explores what the rise of the far right, authoritarianism and fascism looks like in the 21st century, as opposed to the 1930s.
Unsettling Echoes: Joseph Goebbels (1933), Sean Spicer (2017), Steve Bannon (2017)
An outspoken free press is one of the great obstacles to demagogues, who prefer simplistic propaganda to open public debate.
