Andrew Woods

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Can Americans’ Susceptibility To Fascism Be Measured?

This is the final installment of my three-part series on the concepts and legacy of The Authoritarian Personality. In my first piece, I reflected on the study’s approach to conspiracy theories and…

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Revisiting the Authoritarian Personality: Pseudoconservatism and QAnon

In his latest piece on Adorno’s Authoritarian Personality, CARR Doctoral Fellow, Andrew Woods, unpacks Adorno’s definition of pseudoconservatism and determines whether we can use this concept to understand those who follow…

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The Brazilian Right’s Fight Against Its Leftist Boogeyman

The late Brazilian educator Paulo Freire (1921-1997) was a prominent figure in the 20th-century critical pedagogy movement and the celebrated author of the ground-breaking 1968 text, “Pedagogy of the Oppressed.” Freire’s…

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Revisiting the Authoritarian Personality: Conspiracy Theories and the Crank

Since Trump’s electoral victory in 2016, many journalists have praised The Authoritarian Personality as a prophetic text that predicted the rise of fascism in the United States. On the seventieth…

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Off the Hook: How the HIJACKED LABOUR Conspiracy Theory Defends the Radical Right

On December 7th 2019, Tom Newton Dunn, political editor of The Sun, published an editorial that promoted the conspiracy theories of the HIJACKED LABOUR (HL) project. Dunn praised the former…

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The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy Thrives in Bolsonaro’s Brazil

The cultural Marxism conspiracy is fundamentally anti-egalitarian because it portrays any form of social progress or economic equality as evil and poisonous. “Cultural Marxism” is a right-wing conspiracy theory that…

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The Hydra of Suspicion: Conspiracy Theories and the Radical Right

Conspiracy theories have frequently played a significant role in radical right ideologies, narratives, and agendas. In recent years, conspiracism linked to the radical right has made a striking and often…

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Can Americans’ Susceptibility To Fascism Be Measured?

Revisiting the Authoritarian Personality: Pseudoconservatism and QAnon

The Brazilian Right’s Fight Against Its Leftist Boogeyman

Revisiting the Authoritarian Personality: Conspiracy Theories and the Crank

Off the Hook: How the HIJACKED LABOUR Conspiracy Theory Defends the Radical Right

The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy Thrives in Bolsonaro’s Brazil

The Hydra of Suspicion: Conspiracy Theories and the Radical Right

In Poland, public funding is given to those threatening liberal democracy

5 Years After The Munich Shooting: Why It Should Be Remembered As Right-Wing Terrorism

How January 6 Echoed Past Right-Wing Coup Attempts In The Western World

What links organised crime with the radical right?

The Radical Right Is Targeting Neurodivergent Groups