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Recent Examples of Caesarism On Inner Excellence, Caesarism, nationalism, imperialism, ‘Newscum,’ Starbucks, and more A football player made a self-help book the hottest seller in the country. Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 Jan. 2025
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Noun
  • The Allies were an unprecedented coalition of countries, ideologies, and people of all walks of life who stood shoulder to shoulder to defeat tyranny.
    Lt. General Leon Scott Rice, Boston Herald, 7 May 2025
  • For decades, Hollywood cast the American hero — from Rick Blaine to John McClane, Rocky Balboa, Ethan Hunt and Captain America — as the planet’s natural protagonist: the first responder to global chaos, the last line of defense against tyranny.
    Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 7 May 2025
Noun
  • Andor is an amazing work of art, not just as a Star Wars show but as an overall series with incredible writing, acting, production values and a relevant take on the rise of fascism.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
  • The long arm of fascism has stretched all the way to this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where, quite suddenly, nobody is allowed to be naked on the red carpet anymore.
    Rachel Handler, Vulture, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • For instance, during Rafael Trujillo’s dictatorship in the Dominican Republic from 1930 to 1961, the head of intelligence, Johnny Abbes, was plucked from obscurity in Mexico and in 1958 began to lead the dictator’s repression machine.
    Erica Frantz, The Conversation, 16 May 2025
  • In the Soviet dictatorship, this was meant literally: engineers and senior managers in charge of color film production would be denounced, arrested, and executed during the Great Purges of 1937–1838.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • They are caught up by the logics of war and autocracy.
    Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 16 May 2025
  • There is certainly a connection between autocracy and corruption.
    Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • The necessity of power sharing also meant that Congress could provide a check against despotism even if the same party held the Presidency and a majority in both houses.
    David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
  • And there are worse messages to be putting out into the world via family films right now than celebrating the virtues of kindness and fairness over cruel despotism.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which is now on the verge of dissolution, the U.S. had funded 40% of the world’s foreign assistance, including programs designed to combat disease, malnutrition, maternal mortality, totalitarianism, and climate change.
    Belinda Luscombe, Time, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Forgotten Anne, for example, makes arguments against authoritarianism and totalitarianism.
    G Kirilloff, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Public discourse must resist the seduction of emotional absolutism, demanding instead that moral arguments be grounded in fact and logic.
    Kevin Waldman, Twin Cities, 10 Apr. 2025
  • In our skies as in our social lives, incremental change, like ring rain, seems to work slowly, while acts of frightening absolutism seem to happen overnight.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024

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“Caesarism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Caesarism. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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