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Philosopher working on dehumanization, race, Freud, and other stuff. MY SUBSTACK: https://davidlivingstonesmith.substack.com/ MY WEBPAGE: www.davidlivingstonesmith.com

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The Iranian Schoolgirls' Lives.... Mattered
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11.03.2026 22:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Just How Fascist is the Trump Regime? A Checklist

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

11.03.2026 12:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ep. 73- Babi Yar History and Memory with Victoria Khiterer - The Holocaust History Podcast It was the largest open shooting of the Holocaust (and perhaps in history).  Yet the murder in Babi Yar of 33,000+ Jews and other victims remained for much of its postwar life, unmarked and uncom...

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.

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02.03.2026 12:12 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

This looks fascinating

10.03.2026 11:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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

09.03.2026 14:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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"Lethality, Lethality, Lethality" Pete Hegseth’s fondness for the word β€œlethality” makes me shiver.

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08.03.2026 16:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Reckoning With Their Deaths This morning, I awoke to nothing.

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

07.03.2026 23:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

12 characteristics of fascism according to scholars of history.

I’d say MAGA is 12 for 12. You?

06.03.2026 07:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Secretary of Homeland Security Was Not Fired for…. The murder of Ms.

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05.03.2026 21:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Just How Fascist is the Trump Regime? A Checklist

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05.03.2026 19:05 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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What About the Children? There is the world. Our world. The events, the times, the stuff of our lives. Going There is where I reflect on the things that strike me.

What About the Children?
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04.03.2026 23:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Meditation on Helplessness And so it is, another day, another front.

A Meditation on Helplessness
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02.03.2026 00:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Promises Made Were Never Meant to Be Kept The experts are all reciting the so-called promise of β€œno more forever wars.” Did such thoughtful people believe that it was a real promise?

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01.03.2026 00:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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27.02.2026 11:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Psychology of Fascism, Part Three: Sigmund Freud's Analysis of Mass Psychology

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27.02.2026 01:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

No. Linkoping.

25.02.2026 01:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I will be happy to be in Sweden next academic year--albeit only for a year.

25.02.2026 01:15 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Psychology of Fascism, Part 2 Wilhelm Reich and The Mass Psychology of Fascism

The Psychology of Fascism, Part 2
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23.02.2026 20:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Something Has Gone "Afoot," Racially Vini Jr. celebrated too much?

Something Has Gone "Afoot," Racially
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23.02.2026 00:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Where Are The Women? De-Prince arrested for "misconduct in public office"

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20.02.2026 21:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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20.02.2026 21:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Mazel tov!

18.02.2026 16:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Speaking Through Fear There is the world. Our world. The events, the times, the stuff of our lives. Going There is where I reflect on the things that strike me.

Subrena Smith's message for the year ahead: Speaking Through Fear.

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17.02.2026 01:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Weeding Out Race How Plants Can Help Us Think About Race

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

14.02.2026 12:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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

11.02.2026 23:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Vileness Was Never Hidden He and you have been pretending that he wasn’t playing racist footsie.

The Vileness Was Never Hidden. Subrena Smith's powerful reflections on Trump.
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08.02.2026 00:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Simianization. Apes, Gender, Class, and Race (ed. Wulf D. Hund, Charles W. Mills, Silvia Sebastiani) In the course of a flood of ascriptions and assumptions, the ape stereotype evolved into a persistent marker of otherness. As the contributions to this volume of the Racism Analysis Yearbook show, its...

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...

07.02.2026 16:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The last time politicians talked like Trump | David Livingstone Smith
The last time politicians talked like Trump | David Livingstone Smith YouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas

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27.01.2026 21:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have his book Soldaten

24.01.2026 13:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Art For and Against Dehumanization While I am busy being overwhelmed by the start of the spring semester and the horrible state of this country, I figured that I would spend a few moments writing a piece on the topic of art against deh...

Art For and Against Dehumanization
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23.01.2026 00:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0