People who complete more years of formal education tend to score lower on measures of right-wing authoritarianism, a trait ...

In my last post, I described ten traits or behaviors of the authoritarian personality. In this post, I’ll describe ten more. In a subsequent post, I’ll finish up our description of the “terrible ...

“Any attempt to appraise the chances of a fascist triumph in America,” wrote Theodor W. Adorno and his colleagues at the start of their classic 1950 study The Authoritarian Personality, “must reckon ...

In Offended Freedom: The Rise of Libertarian Authoritarianism, two Swiss sociologists, Carolin Amlinger and Oliver Nachtwey, indulge in a common academic habit: blaming libertarians for an ...

The mainstream American news media have failed as an institution to properly confront the country’s worsening democracy crisis in the Age of Trump. He is America’s first elected autocrat. His appetite ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Authoritarianism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Thursday issued a pointed warning in response to State Department spokesperson Tammy ...