totalitarian
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Totalitarian abuses of power and the banal ascendancy of evil aren’t stopped with mere pity, she maintained, but with thoughtfulness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
Libor Svoboda, a historian at the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, called the law a "hodgepodge" in its current shape but admitted it had fulfilled its task in the past.
From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026
Totalitarian leaders tend toward charismatic styles and have a genuine bond of loyalty with their followers, who often express extreme, exaggerated enthusiasm for the leader and his movement.
From Salon • Jun. 22, 2025
Totalitarian domination is the nightmare form of techno-politics: What if the tools that protect us decided to enslave us?
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2023
Totalitarian systems depend on a monopoly of information and force, and too much information started to slip through the Iron Curtain, thanks to the spread of fax machines, telephones, and, eventually, the personal computer.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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