The broad empirical studies in the Authoritarian Personality conducted by Theodor Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswick and colleagues at Columbia University in the 1940s had the aim of measuring the ...

"Your scheme to alter the schedule for the special election is a serious abuse of power that is more alike to election processes in authoritarian countries than anything we see in the United States." ...

This made Social Credit’s brand of expert-rule a bit less authoritarian than Technocracy Incorporated’s. Yet the former party’s indictment of conventional democracy was markedly more fascistic.

A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen and the landscape painter Emil Schindler. She hoped to make her way as a ...

52). Perhaps the most trenchant analysis of the intellectual relation between Heidegger's philosophy and his Nazism, however, was made by the German-Jewish thinker Theodor Adorno (1903-69), like ...

China may not be two years behind in its AI development, and its authoritarian value alignment for generative AI is proving, at least so far, its ability to keep AI in an illiberal cage.

His decision to pardon over 1,500 individuals convicted for their involvement in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot underscores this authoritarian approach, reinforcing the idea that traditional ...

Noam Chomsky’s concept of “authoritarian legalism” describes how regimes manipulate legal frameworks to maintain power while projecting a facade of democracy. In Uganda, under President ...

We’re going high-concept today with a discussion that ends at Elon Musk’s attempt to destroy the federal government, but starts with the fundamental aspects of internet technology. My thesis is that ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters next to Air Force One after arriving back at Joint Base Andrews ...

It takes all kinds, as the saying goes! This is because cats are genetically predisposed toward a certain personality, just like we humans are. Especially important is the Oxytocin Receptor Gene ...