
Ilana Gershon
Ilana Gershon is a professor of anthropology at Rice University who has recently published “The Pandemic Workplace: How We Learned To Be Citizens in the Office” (2024). She has also published books about hiring in corporate America and how Americans use new media to break up.
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Laboratories of Authoritarianism
Why does open authoritarianism feel like a relief to some people? If you are going to be told what to do and can’t offer feedback that someone actually listens to, maybe it is better not to even have the pretense of democracy. Open authoritarianism is, of course, what Trump offers.