Posts tagged with #Authoritarianism

politics/2026-07-17

The Regime Is a Channel

Amin inherited the most powerful broadcast network in Africa and ruled through it. The one movement that outlasted him inside Uganda's borders survived on a discipline that sounds almost too small to matter: it refused to listen, and it kept its own channel. The second essay in a series on the Stratford authoritarianism lectures, and an argument that encryption, self-hosted media, and bearer money are not conveniences. They are the infrastructure you build while the timer is still running.

Authoritarianism Encryption Decentralization

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politics/2026-07-16

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The Rule Has a Timer

Pope Leo XIV declared just war theory outdated while preserving 'the right to self-defense in the strictest sense.' The history of Italian fascism, retold this summer at the Stratford Festival, shows what that clause means in practice: the right to resist is real, but it expires. The moral question is not whether to fight. It is whether you act while resistance is still cheap, still legal, and still nonviolent.

Authoritarianism Just War Civil Resistance

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