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Bonnie Honig

Bonnie Honig is Interim Director of the Pembroke Center for Research on Woman and Gender and Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science at Brown University. Her most recent book is Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair (Fordham University Press).

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Politics, War & Security

Rambo Politics from Reagan to Trump

In linking the assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani to the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, Trump invokes a fantasy of poetic justice—positioning himself as Rambo, the avenger of American humiliation abroad.

Bonnie Honig

Politics, Science & Nature

No Collision

In the face of climate apocalypse, the rich have been devising escape plans. What happens when they opt out of democratic preparation for emergencies?

Bonnie Honig

Politics

The Trump Doctrine and the Gender Politics of Power

Both at home and abroad, Trump deploys a politics of misogyny—lifted right from Machiavelli.

Bonnie Honig

Politics

An Empire unto Himself

When it comes to sexual assault, Harvey Weinstein is old-school. But Trump has changed the rules of the game.

Bonnie Honig

Politics

What White Supremacists Want

Trump's paternalistic language of care draws an exceptional circle around whites only.

Bonnie Honig

Gender & Sexuality, Politics

He Said, He Said: The Feminization of James Comey

Conservatives routinely deny that gender is fluid. Yet they have feminized Comey in order to bring him down.

Bonnie Honig

Politics

The President’s House Is Empty

Opting out, as Trump has done with the White House, is a neoliberal habit. But who bears the cost?

Bonnie Honig

Forum Response

Civil Liberties after 9/11 — Forum Response

A Legacy of Xenophobia

Bonnie Honig

Forum Response

Complicating Culture

The question of what constitutes gender (in)equality must be kept disturbingly open.

Bonnie Honig

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