Responding to Authoritarianism 2025 resources

 

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

                                            Diagnostic Resources

Session One: What is Authoritarianism?

Readings:

• Interview with Anne Applebaum on "Autocracy," PBS News Hour , 8/1/24,Link to site

•"First Signs of Tyranny," NYTimes, 1/25/25 Link to site

• Authoritarianism," Wikipedia,  Link to Site

• Sarah Repucci and Amy Slipowitz, "The Global Expansion of Authoritarian Rule," Freedom in the World 2022, Freedom House  Link to Site

• Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, "How Democracies Die," wikipedia Link to Site

Resources

• Timothy Snyder, "On Tyranny," CHATGPT overview,Link to site

• Anne Applebaum, "America's Future is Hungary," The Atlantic, March 31, 2025

• Anne Applebaum, Autocracy,Inc., CHATGPT overview, Link to Site

• Jason Stanley, "The Ten Tactics of Facism , Big Think, Youtube, Link to site

• Kim Lane Scheppele, "How to Lose a Democracy: What America  can learn from the rest of the world," Univ. of Delaware, 2/17/25 Link to Site_

• Hannah Arendt, "Origins of Totalitarianism," Wikipedia, Link to Site

Session Two: Trump and the slide towards Authoritarianism

•  Stacey Abrams, "Trump Pushing Our Country into Authoritarianism, Jimmy Kimmel Live," July 8, 2025 Link to Site

• Kim Sheppele's slide to Authoritarianism, chatgpt, Link to site

• Thomas Edsall, "I Even Believe He is Destroying the American Presidency," New York Times, May20, 2025  Link to site

• Steven Levitsky, "The New Authoritarianism," The Atlantic Magazine, 2/10/25 link to site

David Remick, interview with Sen. Chris Murphy,"We are Sleepwalking into Autocracy," NYTImes, March 30, 2025 Link to Site

Resources:

• podcast, Robert Reich, "Why Do So Many Americans Support a Neofascist, " The Coffee Klatch, Link to Site

• "What is Project 2025?,"CHATGPT, Link to site

Session Three: Trump and the Rule of law

• Peter Shane,  "This is the Presidency John Roberts Has Built," The Atlantic, Link to Site

• "Trump's Power and the Rule of Law," PBS Frontline, July 15, 2025 Link to Site

• Emily Bazelon & Mattathias Schwartz, "The Education of Judge Ali, " NYTimes Magazine, July 13, 2025   Link to Site

ª Project 2025, Heritage Foundation, Link to Site

The Tech Bros

• podcast, Heather Cox Richardson with Gil Duran, "Who is Curtis Yarvin?" 7/6/25 Link to Site

• Ava Kofman, "Autocracy Now," The New Yorker, 7/2/25 

• Ava Kofman, "The man who thinks Trump should be king," New Yorker podcast , 7/5/25 Link to Site

                                            Prescriptive Resources

• Timothy Snyder, "On Democracy,"  Link to site

**** Jim Acosta with Heather Cox Richardson, "Building a News Community,' July 18, 2025 Link to Site

• Heather Cox Richardson, "How Change Happens," Politics Chat, 7/15/25 Link to Site

• Barack Obama and Heather Cox Richardson, "The System is captured by those have a weak attachment to Democracy," June 17, 2025, Link to Site

• Brennan Center for Justice, NYU, Link to Site

• Lydialyle Gibson, "The Professor Who Quantified Democracy,' Harvard magazine, July-August 2025, Link to Site

• Erica Chenowith interview, " Could the 3.5% Protest Rule Stop Donald Trump? Pod Save America,  Link to Site

• video, "Bringing Down a Dictator," A Force More Powerful Link to Site

• video, "We Were Warriors,", A Force More Powerful     Link to Site

• "The Authoritarian Playbook: How reporters  can contextualize and cover authoritarian threats as distinct from politics as usual," Protect Democracy, June 2022 Link to Site

•••• Steven Levitsky, Lucian Way and Daniel Ziblatt, "No One Has Ever Defeated Autocracy From The Sidelines," NY Times, May 11, 2025 Link to Site

Ari Honarvar, "To Resist The Trump Regime, Look to Iran," Yes! Magazine, 4/24/25Link to Site

Jason Stanley , Erasing History from the US to Germany:Wars are Won by Teachers Link to site

Ian Bassin, "How to Spot Authoritarianism-and Choose democracy," TED Talk Link to site

Maria Stephan & Rivera Sun, "What Can We Do? The top 10 most effective nonviolent actions to meet this moment, podcast, Franciscan Action Network, 7/5/25 Link to class

•••• David Brooks, "What's Happening is not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That is Not Normal," New York Times, 4/17/25 Link to Site

Barbara Peterson, "Why Building Inspiring Alternatives is Necessary to Counter Authoritarianism," Waging Nonviolence, May 15, 2025, Link to Site

Maria Stephan, "How We Can Meet the Challenges of Authoritarianism,"Waging Nonviolence, November 13,2024 Link to Site

• Heather Cox Richardson, Why Do We Protest in America? How Should We Protest? June 10, 2025, Link to Site

David Brooks,  "Weave: The Social Fabric Project," Aspen Institute, Link to Site

Nonviolent Direct Action

• Erica Chenoweth, et al, "America Spring? How Nonviolent protest  in the US is accelerating," Waging Nonviolence, 6/12/25  ink to Site

• Maria Stephan, "How We Can Meet the Challenges of Authoritarianism," Waging Nonviolence, 11/13/24

Link to Site

• George Lakey, "Can Nonviolent Struggle Defeat a Dictator? this database emphatically says yes," Waging Nonviolence, 1/8/25, Link to Site

• Maria Stephan and Julia Roig, " Combatting Authoritarianism: The Skills and Infrastructure Needed to Organize Across Difference," Just security.org, January 27, 2022 Link to Site

• George Lakey, "Overcoming Despair and Apathy to Win Democracy,' Waging Nonviolence, May 20, 2024, Like to Site

Organizations

David Brooks, Weaving a New Social Fabric for America, Aspen Institute, 7/26/2023,Link to Site

David Brooks and Frederick Riley,  "Aspen Ignites: restoring Social Trust,"Link to Site

Braver Angels,  Link to Site

Free Speech for the People Link to Site

Horizions Project Link to Site

Daniel Hunter, "Choose Democracy," Link to Site

"A Guide to Protesting," AFSC,  Link to Site

Building Individual Resilience

• Daniel Hunter, "10 ways to be prepared and grounded now that Trump has won," Waging Nonviolence, 11/4/24 Link to Site

Daniel Hunter, "Finding Steady Ground: strengthening our spirits to resist and thrive in these times," Link to Site

Music 

• "This Land is Your land, " (Woody Guthrie), Woody Guthrie Link to Site

• "People Have the Power," Patti Smith, Link to site

• "Heroes," (David Bowie), David Bowie, Live Aid, 1985, Link to Site

• "Chimes of Freedom"," (Bob Dylan), Bruce Springsteen, Live in East Berlin 1988, Link to Site

• "Democracy," (Leonard Cohen), Leonard Cohen, Live in London, 2008 Link to Site

• "Deportee"  (Woody Guthrie) Ani DiFranco and Ry Cooder Link to Site

• "My Name is Lisa Kalveage, ( Pete Seeger), Ani DiFranco Link to Site

Democracy Action Plan, CHATGPT link to site

test up load Link to google doc