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David Livingstone Smith

@davidlsmith.bsky.social
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Philosopher working on dehumanization, race, Freud, and other stuff. MY SUBSTACK: davidlivingstonesmith.substack.com MY WEBPAGE: www.davidlivingstonesmith.com

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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For the Love of Fascism davidlivingstonesmith.substack.com/p/for-the-lo...
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For the Love of Fascism
Freud on the Fascist Mentality
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
subrena.substack.com/p/the-remedy...
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The Remedy for Despair
People are supposed to be hopeful.
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Mae Tang 董美妍 @maetangwriter.com · 10/09/2026
He apparently sold YO! Sushi to another company, but still gets 1% of profits. At any rate, I'll get my sushi from elsewhere instead.
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 10/09/2026
I'm making really good progress now on the public side of the #VisualizingJanowska project. Here's my first intro video!
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Hur uppstår folkmord och brott mot mänskligheten?
Avhumanisering är drivkraften bakom flera av historiens värsta brott, menar professor David Livingstone Smith. Som gästprofessor i Tage Danielssons namn ska han undersöka när, hur och varför en männis...
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Back in the (Swedish) Saddle davidlivingstonesmith.substack.com/p/back-in-th...
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Back in the (Swedish) Saddle
Getting Settled and Exciting News
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
My interview on the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards podcast. www.anisfield-wolf.org/podcasts/epi...
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Episode 29: Author & Philosopher David Livingstone Smith
Author and Philosopher David Livingstone Smith joins host Karen Long to explore how ordinary people come to see others as less than human. Smith, winner of the 2012 Nonfiction Anisfield-Wolf Book Awar...
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
liu.se/event/forela...
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Research just around the corner: How Not to Be a Fascist
Det är allmänt accepterat att ett av målen med högre utbildning är att främja unga människors utveckling till eftertänksamma och ansvarsfulla medborgare. Detta är förstås viktigt, men en central aspek...
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
So-called "race science" has been having a moment in the sun. If you are interested in learning more about the scientific vacuousness of the claims being spouted by people like Nathan Cofnas, I highly recommend Eric Turkheimer's Substack. ericturkheimer.substack.com
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Eric Turkheimer - Gloomy Prospect Blog | Substack
The Substack for Eric Turkheimer. Click to read Eric Turkheimer - Gloomy Prospect Blog, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I guess it's time to trot this one out again. newlinesmag.com/argument/the...
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The Trouble With Race and Its Many Shades of Deceit
How education programs intended to foster diversity, equality and inclusion do harm, and why it’s time for a radical shift
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I'm delighted to say that I have accepted an offer from Oxford University Press for my next book, The Allure of Fascism.
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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What if Freud Was Right?
A neuroscientist dares to argue that old-fashioned psychoanalysis holds the key to curing mental illness.
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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The Origins of War
Brief Note from an Academic Refugee
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I just came across a documentary on the origins of war that I participated in over a decade ago and now fully accessible on line: in English and Swedish. Beautifully produced. webb-tv.nu/manniskans-f...
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Människans första krig - SVT Play
Under de senaste hundra åren har omkring 200 miljoner människor dött i krig, de flesta civila. Människans första krig ställer frågan om krigen mellan människor är en del av vårt medfödda arv?
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Listen to this episode from the excellent Weird Little Guys podcast to understand the extent of the Trump regime's assault on American history. www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
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Flagged for Removal - Weird Little Guys | iHeart
<p>Last week, a federal judge ordered the Department of the Interior to stop implementation of a Trump executive order that would whitewash history at National Park sites. A leaked database shows the ...
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I am deeply honored to have been cited in Justice Kenanji Brown Jackson's opinion on birthright citizenship.
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
On Inhumanity is the most accessible of my books on dehumanization, but it's had the least attention -- probably because it was published during the pandemic. It's the best introduction to my work. www.amazon.com/dp/019092300...
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Amazon.com: On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It: 9780190923006: Smith, David Livingstone: Books
Amazon.com: On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It: 9780190923006: Smith, David Livingstone: Books
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Twenty-eight years ago today, we got hitched at the Camberwell registry office in South London. Our love sure brought the racists out of the woodwork. We were treated individually to comments like "But you're soooo different..." and "Ew, White people are filthy...". Idiots!
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
oin me today at 2PM Eastern for a conversation on dehumanization and related topics. www.bettedangerous.com/p/register-b...
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REGISTER: Bette’s Happy Hour with David Livingstone Smith
Our guest on Tuesday at 11 am Pacific is author and philosopher David Livingstone Smith, who has dedicated much of his career to understanding dehumanization, as our three-part podcast series reveals
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
There have been several red scares in the past--in Europe and America in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, in Nazi Germany, and during the McCarthy era. But the grand-daddy of them all goes back to the Middle Ages. davidlivingstonesmith.substack.com/p/the-first-...
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The First Red Scare
A medieval conspiracy theory
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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Just How Fascist is the Trump Regime?
A Checklist
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
REGISTER: Bette’s Happy Hour with David Livingstone Smith open.substack.com/pub/heidicud...
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REGISTER: Bette’s Happy Hour with David Livingstone Smith
Our guest on Tuesday at 11 am Pacific is author and philosopher David Livingstone Smith, who has dedicated much of his career to understanding dehumanization, as our three-part podcast series reveals
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This is part three of my conversation with Heidi Cuda on "Understanding Dehumanization" on the Bette Dangerous Substack. If you think it, and the previous parts, are worthwhile, please distribute them through your networks. www.bettedangerous.com/p/understand...
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Understanding Dehumanization, Part 3 - 'Know Thyself' to Resist: A Bette Dangerous Podcast Series with David Livingstone Smith, Ep96
In Part 3 of my new podcast series on understanding dehumanization with David Livingstone Smith we focus how to resist dehumanizing others by knowing yourself
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Part two of Understanding Dehumanization, on the Bette Dangerous substack. www.bettedangerous.com/p/understand...
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Understanding Dehumanization, Part 2 - Of Race and Monsters: A Bette Dangerous Podcast Series with David Livingstone Smith, Ep95
In Part 2 of my new podcast series on understanding dehumanization with David Livingstone Smith we focus on the role of beliefs about race and why it is that dehumanized people are 'seen as monsters'
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
www.bettedangerous.com/p/the-power-...
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'The Power to Define Reality'
An edited transcript from Part 1 in the Bette Dangerous series, Understanding Dehumanization, with David Livingstone Smith
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
www.bettedangerous.com/p/understand...
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Understanding Dehumanization: A Bette Dangerous Podcast Series with David Livingstone Smith, Part 1, Ep94
In Part 1 of my new podcast series with David Livingstone Smith we dive right into what we need to know about dehumanization, the "conceiving of others as less than human creatures"
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
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The Trump Regime Wants to Erase White History
It's time to flip the script
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I have had the great honor of writing the preface to Antoinette Harrell's forthcoming book about the Walls family. www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
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Facebook
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Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
“The tormentors of undocumented immigrants – the ICE thugs – are pictured as benign caretakers, who want only to capture and release the subhuman creature—the invasive species—back into its natural environment."-- David Livingstone Smith
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
This promises to be an awesome event. liu.se/en/event/phi...
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(De)humanization – Philosophical, Historical, and Cultural Perspectives
This workshop brings together scholars from different disciplines to explore the concept of dehumanization and its significance in social, political, and historical contexts. Through a series of talks...
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Heidi Siegmund Cuda — Bette Dangerous @heidicuda.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
On Pogroms — ‘The Crime of Their Very Existence’ Crossposting Professor David Livingstone Smith’s recent Dehumanization Matters Substack report on “gender, mob violence, and the logic of race” www.bettedangerous.com/p/on-pogroms...
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On Pogroms — ‘The Crime of Their Very Existence’
Crossposting Professor David Livingstone Smith’s recent Dehumanization Matters Substack report on “gender, mob violence, and the logic of race”
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/hot-type-a...
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Hot Type: 'They Walk Among Us' — Trump's Dehumanizing Propaganda
Heidi Siegmund Cuda reports on how a truly shocking official video released by the Trump White House conflates undocumented workers with ‘aliens’ – a horrifying new twist on an old fascist playbook
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Tomorrow (Saturday, June 13) the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis will host a session on Dehumanization and Soul Murder at 10:30 PT, with a presentation by Paul Williams and a response from Jyoti Rao. The session will be live-streamed. www.sfcp.org/2026-06-13-s...
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Scientific Meeting: Notes on Dehumanization and Soul Murder – San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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On Pogroms
Gender, Mob Violence, and the Logic of Race
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
www.rawstory.com/greg-bovino-...
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Ousted Trump official blasted for promoting ‘Hitlerian greeting’ ahead of ‘fascist summit’
Journalist Charles Davis expressed shock on Sunday at the lack of media coverage on Gregory Bovino, the Trump administration’s ousted Border Patrol chief, having attended what he described as a “neo-f...
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
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Trump's Newest Dehumanization Push
New rhetoric echoing the worst of the fascist past
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"How do you hear this statement: “Germany, there’s a complicated history there with Jewish Germans and White Germans”? I hope that your eyes widened, that your brow furrowed, that you thought and felt, at a minimum, that something is not right." subrena.substack.com/p/voting-rig...
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Voting Rights Deformed
Why the history matters
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
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Nobody Has an Ideology
But ideologies have us.
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
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Plea for a Center for Dehumanization Studies
Incredibly, none exist
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I have long dreamed of a university establishing a center for dehumanization studies. There isn't one, anywhere in the world. Given the current political trajectory, that's not going to happen, at least in the US.
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
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The Terrible Stickiness of Race
An ideological Stockholm syndrome
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
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Two Takes on Dehumanization
Now you can read both of our Lebowitz Prize papers
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Owning "Never Again" open.substack.com/pub/subrena/...
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Owning "Never Again"
Antisemitism and Responsibility
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
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The Unknown Freud
For his 160th birthday
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
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The Fascism Spectrum
Asking whether the Trump regime is fascist or not is the wrong question to ask
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Owning Up: No responsibility, No Justice open.substack.com/pub/subrena/...
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Everyone interested in American history, truth, and justice should know about Antoinette Africa Harrell's work, very well presented in this film. It is a huge honor to write the forward for her forthcoming book. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OXb...
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Genealogist Who Tracks Down Modern-Day Slavery Practices
YouTube video by VICE
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David Livingstone Smith @davidlsmith.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
My first class of the day had a remarkably incisive discussion of this video, recorded at the 2012 G20 summit. I was sitting in the front row, and have been friends with the brilliant Natasha Tsakos ever since. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-2b...
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CLIMAX by Natasha Tsakos | performed at the G20 Summit
YouTube video by Natasha Tsakos
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