Jennifer and Jacques reflect on recent world trends toward Authoritarianism, and what we need to take good notice of.

Quoting Henry Giroux, they argue that our task is to refuse the limits imposed by neoliberal fatalism and authoritarian rule - but not only to resist but to widen the horizon of the possible.

Henry Giroux (19/02/2025) Neoliberalism's Embrace of Cruelty and its Assault on Social Bonds in the LA Progressive (Giroux occupies the Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and Cultural Studies Department; he is the Paulo Freire Distinguished  Schoar in Critical Pedagogy at Mc Master University in Canada)

Nick Bryant (2024) The Forever War: America's Unending Conflict With Itself (Viking, Penguin Random House Australia)

Chris Hedges speech at the Workers Strike Back conference in Seattle  (go to Chris Hedges substack)

J. Boulet (2021) 'Social-Media-weaponised populism and community development' in Kenny, Ife & Westoby (eds.) Populism, Democracy and Community Development (Bristol: Policy Press/Bristol University Press)

Kant Immanuel (1795) Zum Ewigen Frieden: ein philosophischer Entwurf (Towards an eternal Peace: a philosophical proposal)