On May 6, 2021, on the heels of Brazil’s deadliest month since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, special police forces in Rio de…
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Last month, while in Spain, we woke up to the news that local residents in the Canary Islands were planning to set up patrols…
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An introductory note: In the short space of time that has elapsed since I first drafted this essay – in the last week of…
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There were three lanes at the checkpoint in Turpan—an old Uyghur-majority oasis city on the northern reaches of the Taklamakan Desert in Northwest China….
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Modern states, both liberal and non-liberal, tend to deploy totalitarian-style strategies which force an “internal other” to assimilate into the dominant group. Such assimilationist…
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Today’s Totalitarianism welcomes written opinion pieces that increase our awareness of the dangers we confront at this historical juncture anywhere in the world, of…
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Collectively, immigration policies function to perform national sovereignty by reinforcing the division between citizen and migrant, usually conflated with ‘native’ and ‘outsider.’ While the…
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Wherever one looks across the globe today democracy is in decline and trends towards what was once called “totalitarianism” are on the rise. In…
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