The Panopticon Review: FASCISM IN AMERICA 2025: Prominent Public Intellectuals, Media Mavens, Journalists, Educators, and Activists Wajahat Ali and Joy Reid On The Hegemonic Historical and Foundational Role of the Doctrine and Practice of the Ideological, Economic, and Political Force Known As White Supremacy and Its Ongoing Dialectical Relationship to Capitalism, Misogyny, Xenophobia, and (Of Course) Fascism Itself

Friday, August 15, 2025

FASCISM IN AMERICA 2025: Prominent Public Intellectuals, Media Mavens, Journalists, Educators, and Activists Wajahat Ali and Joy Reid On The Hegemonic Historical and Foundational Role of the Doctrine and Practice of the Ideological, Economic, and Political Force Known As White Supremacy and Its Ongoing Dialectical Relationship to Capitalism, Misogyny, Xenophobia, and (Of Course) Fascism Itself

How Mediocre White Men and Their Fragility Are Destroying America (with Joy-Ann Reid)

Wajahat Ali

August 15, 2025

VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQbVyNEN_C8

The Trump Administration & corporate media are Affirmative Action for the world's most fragile, mediocre, white men who see equality as oppression & would rather burn the country down than share it. In this blunt as F conversation with the great Joy-Ann Reid, we connect the dots and explain how the Trump Administration is populated by the world’s most mediocre conservative Affirmative Action hires who would rather burn America down than share the country with the rest of us.

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/ho...

Nina Simone (1933-2003)

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Kofi Natambu, editor of The Panopticon Review, is a writer, poet, cultural critic, and political journalist whose poetry, essays, criticism, reviews, and journalism have appeared in many literary magazines, journals, newspapers, and anthologies. He is the author of a biography MALCOLM X: His Life & Work (Alpha Books) and two books of poetry: THE MELODY NEVER STOPS (Past Tents Press) and INTERVALS (Post Aesthetic Press). He was the founder and editor of SOLID GROUND: A NEW WORLD JOURNAL, a national quarterly magazine of the arts, culture, and politics and the editor of a literary anthology NOSTALGIA FOR THE PRESENT (Post Aesthetic Press). Natambu has read his work throughout the country and given many lectures and workshops at academic and arts institutions. He has taught American literature, literary theory and criticism, cultural history and criticism, film studies, political science, creative writing, philosophy, critical theory, and music history and criticism (Jazz, Blues, R&B, Hip Hop) at many universities and colleges. He was also a curator in the Education Department of Detroit’s Museum of African American History. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Natambu currently lives in Berkeley, California with his wife Chuleenan.

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