The Authoritarianism Project is a weekly newsletter on anti-democratic movements in the US and overseas, and part of my open-source research for a forthcoming book, tentatively titled "Deathsquad Democracy."
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The Dillard Effect
I spent a lifetime with Annie Dillard. Not routinely, but deeply, for decades. I took a class with her at Wesleyan University in 1986, spent the 90s at her poker nights and shack parties and wilderness weeks, and settled in to a visit every...
A Thousand Bullets
NYT
JD Vance writes, in his book Communion, about how he responded to the coronavirus in 2020.
As one of the more powerful men in America, he didn’t dedicate himself to public health. Or collective grief. Or rational discourse. He went a...
Blackout/Drunk
Cuba was always known for its debauchery. During our prohibition, Bing Crosby sang about “drinking like a Cuban.” In the 1950s, the American mafia sold sin. Even the ‘60s socialists were sexy. In the Special Period of the 1990s, prostitutio...
Do the Math
Graffiti is very rare in Cuba. Usually only official propaganda is allowed to be displayed, and the only slogans are ones like “Raul forever“ or “Hasta la Victoria Siempre.” But an artist from the collective called Super Malo has put this t...
Like a Rolling Stone
I’m pleased to report that Rolling Stone magazine just commissioned a 5,000-word article from me on Cuba.
I originally had an assignment from Harper’s, but once I cleared my calendar and planned out my trip to Cuba, they canceled. Turns o...
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