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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).

Articles

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
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
Both at home and abroad, Trump deploys a politics of misogyny—lifted right from Machiavelli.
Bonnie Honig
When it comes to sexual assault, Harvey Weinstein is old-school. But Trump has changed the rules of the game.
Bonnie Honig

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

Bonnie Honig

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

Bonnie Honig

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

Bonnie Honig

Forum Responses

The detention of aliens documented by David Cole in his fine essay is merely the latest in a long history of American nativism and xenophobia. This history may seem at odds with...
Bonnie Honig
Moving quickly from veiling to polygamy to efforts to control female sexuality to the denial of maternal rights over children to the (paradoxically contradictory) enforcement of maternalism as women's proper role to...
Bonnie Honig

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