How to Spot a (Potential) Fasc!st

Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: An introduction to The Authoritarian Personality study. Timestamps: 0:00 Fascisticus Potentialicus 01:51 Introduction 05:07 Defining Fascism / Ur-Fascism 07:03 Antisemitism and Ethnocentrism 11:31 Fascism, Conservatism and Religion 16:09 The Authoritarian Personality 23:18 Conclusions This month’s episode of What the Theory? is an introduction to the Authoritarian Personality study, carried out by T.W. Adorno (a key member of the “Frankfurt School“ and central force in the development of Critical Theory), Else Frenkel-Brunswick, Daniel J. Levinson and R. Nevitt Sanford at the University of California, Berkeley in 1950. Following the end of World War 2, these four psychologists were interested in finding out what had motivated so many supposedly ordinary citizens in Germany (and elsewhere in Europe) to participate in the awful designs of th