My research method for writing about terrible things

Heidi Siegmund Cuda reflects on how the Trump regime’s cynical use of ‘God’ as cover for its greedy, bloody, and criminal actions mirrors fascist regimes, both past and present

Freud on the Fascist Mentality

People are supposed to be hopeful.

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...

Getting Settled and Exciting News

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...

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...

The Substack for Eric Turkheimer. Click to read Eric Turkheimer - Gloomy Prospect Blog, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

How education programs intended to foster diversity, equality and inclusion do harm, and why it’s time for a radical shift

A neuroscientist dares to argue that old-fashioned psychoanalysis holds the key to curing mental illness.

Brief Note from an Academic Refugee

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?

<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 ...

Amazon.com: On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It: 9780190923006: Smith, David Livingstone: Books

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

A medieval conspiracy theory

A Checklist

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

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

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'

An edited transcript from Part 1 in the Bette Dangerous series, Understanding Dehumanization, with David Livingstone Smith

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"

It's time to flip the script

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...

Crossposting Professor David Livingstone Smith’s recent Dehumanization Matters Substack report on “gender, mob violence, and the logic of race”

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

Gender, Mob Violence, and the Logic of Race

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...

New rhetoric echoing the worst of the fascist past

Why the history matters

But ideologies have us.

Incredibly, none exist