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Noun
  • As previously announced, Andrew Garfield stars as the legendary leader of a ferocious rebellion against the tyranny of King Richard II.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Andrew Garfield is leading the feature that is now in production, portraying the leader of a ferocious rebellion against the tyranny of King Richard II.
    Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Thomas Pynchon has been warning us about American fascism the whole time.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Oct. 2025
  • His latest novel in English, , unfolds in a single sentence and reflects anxieties about rising fascism in Europe.
    Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Made as Brazil’s dictatorship was losing its grip, these films confronted repression indirectly, turning sensuality into an act of defiance.
    Lise Pedersen, Variety, 12 Oct. 2025
  • As the series continues, the twins find their parents, grow up, fall in love and fight dictatorship.
    Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This is a democracy versus autocracy issue.
    Andrea Hsu, NPR, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Yet the film’s timeliness is still a tonic, given that the spirit of autocracy looks more and more like a virus that now wants to take over the world.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In recent months, as despotism intensified an increasing number of writers, scholars, and thinkers were declared foreign agents, and their books were taken off the shelves.
    Nina Khrushcheva, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The Bashar Assad regime’s collapse inspired a wave of optimism about despotism turning into democracy.
    Daniel DePetris, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Except for a few shots of China’s President Xi presiding over a military parade, the film’s image of totalitarianism leans far more toward right-wing regimes; to leave out Mao, or Castro, feels like a mistake.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four (also stylized as 1984) was published in 1949, and served as a stark warning about the dangers of totalitarianism.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As Perez wrote, Musk’s free-speech absolutism was a fiction perpetuated by a pliant media.
    Jacob Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The History of a Dangerous Idea, Dabhoiwala sees First Amendment absolutism in the practices of Facebook and its ilk.
    Kwame Anthony Appiah, The New York Review of Books, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And Trump should not be surprised when millions of Americans stand up to his authoritarianism and his greed.
    Deputy News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Oct. 2025
  • All this assumes that America and the West do not backslide into their own versions of authoritarianism.
    Peter Leyden, Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025

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“Caesarism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Caesarism. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.

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