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Shannon Brincat is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations. He has been the editor of a number of collections, most recently of the Special Issue of Globalizations ‘Dialectics and World Politics’, Recognition, Conflict and the Problem of Ethical Community (forthcoming Routledge 2015) and the three volume series Communism in the 21st Century (Praeger, 2014). He is also to co-founder and co-editor of the journal Global Discourse. His current research focuses on recognition theory and cosmopolitanism; dialectics; tyrannicide; climate change justice; and Critical Theory. He has articles published in the European Journal of International Relations, Review of International Studies and Constellations, amongst others.

Political witch hunts and blacklists: Donald Trump and the new era of McCarthyism

Shannon Brincat, Frank Mols and Gail Crimmins report that a modern-day political inquisition is unfolding in “digital town squares” across the United States. The slain far-right activist Charlie Kirk has become a focal point for a coordinated campaign of silencing critics that chillingly echoes one of the darkest chapters in American history. They state “this is far-right “cancel culture”, the likes of which the US hasn’t seen since the McCarthy era in the 1950s.”

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Subjects: Congress, Free Speech, Legal Research, Social Media, United States Law
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