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  • The three structural trends shaping the AI crisis in higher education

  • What is Elon Musk’s end game?

  • Contemporary fascism mobilises passions which are a (fleeting) escape from the paralysis borne of a dying civilization

  • The triangulation of centrists emboldens the far-right

  • “I try not to look ahead at the moment. If I don’t look ahead I don’t worry”

  • Post-truth as liberal populism: revisiting Cambridge Analytica

  • How will vaccine nationalism reshape globalisation?

  • What comes after Trump?

  • The coming fascism

  • The perpetual warfare of the populist president

  • The highly structured centralised system of the grassroots campaign

  • Hampered by the need to defend the EU…

  • The promise of the populist president

  • The vested interests of the media in Trump

  • When political theory restages the ‘Corbynism is a cult’ trope

  • Who would be against the people?

  • Austerity politics as reactionary populism

  • The mundane reality of neo-fascism

  • Donald Trump as spectacle and fetish

  • Fascism and the liberal imagination

  • Social ontology amidst the wreckage of techno-progressive orthodoxy

  • When the populists inspire the ad men

  • The Alt-Right and the Reactionary Politics of Transgression

  • Post-Truth as Personal Incapacity

  • The coming of neoliberal populism: comparing Trump and Macron

  • Daniel Bell, Transgression and the Alt-Right

  • The populist right are demotic, rather than democratic

  • How do we explain the election of Donald Trump?

  • Social media and populism 

  • Was Sloterdijk an early originator of contemporary right populism?

  • Trump is masculinising poverty

  • The coming army of American demagogues

  • The Electorate as Constitutional Kings

  • How to move further from Mandela without becoming Mugabe

  • Violence as the expression of Trump’s nascent ideology

  • digital capitalism and the bestiary of the imagination 

  • The corporate capture of democracy

  • What would a viable left-wing populist agenda for the UK look like?

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