Just how fascist is the Trump regime? Here's a checklist for you to score it. davidlivingstonesmith.substack.com/p/just-how-f...

Trump's self-apotheosis as the new Jesus is not surprising. See my article "Sacred leaders and true believers". doi.org/10.1080/0951...

Mercy, Mercy, I Have No Words open.substack.com/pub/subrena/...

davidlivingstonesmith.substack.com/p/just-how-f....

The Iranian Schoolgirls' Lives.... Mattered subrena.substack.com/.../the-iran....

Halford E. Luccock wrote in 1938, “When and if fascism comes to America, it will not be labelled ‘made in Germany’; it will not be marked with a swastika; it will not even be called fascism; it will be called, of course, ‘Americanism’.” davidlivingstonesmith.substack.com/p/just-how-f...

In this episode, we go back to Babi Yar, the largest open-air shooting of the Holocaust which took place in Kyiv in September 1941. I talked with Victoria Khiterer about the massacre, bystanders, and the incredible struggle to commemorate this event. thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...

Next event in this series is *tonight*, Mon 9 March, as 12 noon Pacific (note that this is 8pm GMT; the US changed clocks yesterday): Dr. Lucy Suchman is tonight's guest on "Critical Perspectives on 'AI' in Education." #academicsky

New from Subrena Smith. subrena.substack.com/p/reckoning-...

12 characteristics of fascism according to scholars of history. I’d say MAGA is 12 for 12. You?

What About the Children? open.substack.com/pub/subrena/...

A Meditation on Helplessness open.substack.com/pub/subrena/...

The Psychology of Fascism, Part 2 open.substack.com/pub/davidliv...

Something Has Gone "Afoot," Racially open.substack.com/pub/subrena/...

Subrena Smith's message for the year ahead: Speaking Through Fear. subrena.substack.com/p/speaking-t...

"Weeding Out Race." Reposting this, in light of the current political atmosphere. davidlivingstonesmith.substack.com/p/weeding-ou...

What do you all think of these two potential titles for a crossover book about fascism. Which is better? 1. Fascist States (of Mind) 2. Ordinary Fascism

The Vileness Was Never Hidden. Subrena Smith's powerful reflections on Trump. subrena.substack.com/p/the-vilene...

For the deep context of Trump's latest indignity, see SIMIANIZATION: Apes, Gender, Class, and Race edited by Wulf D. Hund, Charles W. Mills, Silvia Sebastiani, available for download here: www.academia.edu/16269162/Sim...

Art For and Against Dehumanization open.substack.com/pub/davidliv...

Illinois friends

Of course teachers can use AI to detect cheating | Opinion www.pressherald.com/2026/01/07/u...

A discussion of the evolution of dehumanisation, monsters and race. | https://bit.ly/3XcIv2B Philosopher David Livingstone Smith presents us with a candid but unique outlook on this topic, exploring symbols of hate to having hope without optimism. #philsky

David Livingstone Smith maintains that people are initially attracted to fascist-style movements for more economic reasons, and the leader’s rhetoric aims at converting them from mere followers into true believers doi.org/10.1080/0951... #vol39issue1 #devotion #philsky #philpsy 11/11

How dehumanizing people transforms them into monsters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ2n...

At bottom, pseudo-philosophers are bullshitters, in Harry Frankfurt’s sense of the term. Frankfurt distinguishes bullshitters from liars. Liars have got to keep an eye on the truth, because they’ve got to avoid it. But truth is irrelevant to bullshitters.

Subrena, my spouse, and I will be spending next academic year in Sweden. That means we will have to rent our (lovely) home out for a year. I'm writing on the off chance that anyone knows of anyone that needs a place to rent in southern NH.