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Theodor Adorno

9/11/2022

The Authoritarian Personality and the Rising Far Right

by Sam Ben-Meir

This moment of peril for American democracy calls for a return to the diagnosis presented in "The Authoritarian Personality," 1950s effort to develop a social-psychological profile of the people likely to embrace fascism.

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Theodor Adorno

The Authoritarian Personality and the Rising Far Right

by Sam Ben-Meir