Dangerous Thinking in the Age of the New Authoritarianism

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Between Orwell and Huxley : America's plunge into dystopia -- Thinking dangerously in the age of political betrayal -- Data storms and the tyranny of manufactured forgetting -- Militarism's killing fields : from Afghanistan to Ferguson -- ISIS and the spectacle of terrorism : resisting mainstream workstations of fear -- Interview : organized forgetting. memory, and hope beyond authoritarianism -- The specter of neoliberal authoritarianism and the politics of the deep state -- Neoliberalism and the machinery of disposability -- Chapter 9-higher education and the new brutalism -- The poison of neoliberal miseducation--higher education as a dead zone of the imagination -- Interview : predatory neoliberalism as a global force -- Reclaim the radical imagination : politics beyond hope -- The responsibility of intellectuals in the shadow of the atomic plague -- Neoliberalism's war against the radical imagination -- Protesting youth in an age of neoliberal savagery -- Noam Chomsky and the courage of public intellectuals in dark times -- Interview : the specter of authoritarianism and the future of the left.