Office Hours: Why is the world drifting toward authoritarianism and neofascism?

And what can be done about it?

credit: James Ferguson, Financial Times

Friends,

India’s Modi, Argentina’s Milei, Brazil’s Bolsonaro, Italy’s Meloni, Hungary’s Orban, the Netherlands’s Wilders, France’s Bardella, Israel’s Netanyahu, not to mention America’s convicted felon Trump, China’s Xi, and Russia’s Putin.

They’re nationalist, xenophobic, Islamophobic, and hard right — and eager to lock in systems that perpetuate their power. Many of them in Europe head parties with fascist roots.