By Michel-Rolph Trouillot (NHC Fellow, 1985–86) In the euphoria that followed the departure of Haiti’s hated dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, most Haitian and foreign analysts treated the regimes of the two Duvaliers, father and son, as a historical nightmare created by the malevolent minds of the leaders and their supporters. Yet the crisis, economic and political, … Continued
Ours is the age of the strongman, the leader who destroys or damages democracy and uses masculinity as a tool of political legitimacy. This webinar discusses the authoritarian playbook—corruption, violence, machismo, and propaganda—and how people have resisted it for one hundred years.
Parthenon describes his experience growing up as a musically-minded American expatriate in Greece in the 1960s and early 1970s. After a Greek military coup, opportunities to see live American rock shows ceased entirely. As a result, when the film Woodstock came to Greek theaters, the excitement and desperation young people had to reconnect with their … Continued