Comparing Trump-Era Detention Policies
Comparing Trump-Era Detention Policies, CECOT, and Nazi Concentration Camps: Why Precision Matters Few historical analogies are as fraught—or as frequently misused—as comparisons to Nazi concentration camps. Invoking them irresponsibly trivializes the Holocaust. Avoiding them entirely, however, can also obscure how extreme state power takes shape in stages. When critics compare aspects of Trump-era detention policies,…
Masks, Power, and Political Violence
Masks Power and Political Violence – The SA and ICE Compared Violence carried out by state or state-aligned forces is never just about physical harm. It is also symbolic. What perpetrators wear—or choose not to wear—matters. Clothing communicates authority, intent, and accountability. Few symbols are more loaded than the mask. Comparing the Nazi Sturmabteilung (SA)…
The Irony of Refusing the ICC
The United States, the Nuremberg Trials, and the Irony of Refusing the ICC The Nuremberg Trials stand as one of the most consequential legal undertakings of the 20th century. Conducted in the aftermath of the Second World War, they created a new architecture for international criminal justice—naming, defining, and prosecuting crimes such as aggressive war,…
