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Here you will find information on my upcoming presentations and talks, recent media appearances, and past presentations. IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Late Night With Seth Meyers, “Sarah Kendzior on the Systemic Issues That Will Outlast Trump” (4/24/18) Late Night With Seth Meyers “Sarah Kendzior and the Problem With Journalists” (4/24/18) Riverfront Times, "How Sarah Kendzior became the prophetCV | SARAH KENDZIOR
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HOW IMMIGRANTS TO AMERICA BECOME “WHITE” For De Correspondent, I wrote on the white supremacist movement surrounding the Trump campaign, and the complicated history of "whiteness" in America. An excerpt on Polish-Americans: Here it is important to understand how, exactly, Americans ‘become white’. The history of Polish-Americans is an illuminating example. Upon arriving in the U.S. en masse in the late THE MERCILESSNESS OF DIGITAL MEDIA For Al Jazeera, I wrote about the suicide of Amanda Todd, a teenager who was bullied and stalked online before committing suicide last week:. Digital memory spares no mercy. For teenagers like Amanda Todd, one regrettable decision can transform one’s life – or end it. The combination of digital media that can be cached and copied and monopoly platforms like Facebook that confine diverse THE PERILS OF THE PRESTIGE ECONOMY The Perils of the Prestige Economy. Posted on June 16, 2013 by Sarah Kendzior. I have a new interview with the website PolicyMic on what I call the prestige economy. The interview touches on a number of subjects – unpaid internships, the rising price of higher education, inequality and immobility, media, and geography of industry – and is THE BEST ADVICE ON TWITTER TROLLS WAS WRITTEN BY AL As I posted on Twitter earlier today, the best advice I’ve seen on dealing with Twitter trolls comes from the 11th century Sufi philosopher al-Ghazali and his text “Ayyuha l’Walad”. Al-Ghazali anticipated our social media problems by 1000 years. By al-Ghazali’s definition, there are four types of Twitter trolls. Below: a description of the trolls, SARAH KENDZIORABOUTSCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONSOPINION AND ANALYSISINTERVIEWS AND MEDIAPUBLIC SPEAKINGCV What a week! My book “The View From Flyover Country” is now a critically acclaimed best-seller — again. This collection of essays on the erosion of institutions and social trust in the US was originally written in 2012-2014, self-published as an ebook on Amazon in 2015, became a big hit after the 2016 election, and was rereleased in print with additional essays about the Trump era on ABOUT | SARAH KENDZIOR About. I am a writer who lives in St Louis, Missouri. I am best known for my best-selling essay collection The View From Flyover Country, my reporting on political and economic problems in the US, my prescient coverage of the 2016 election and the Trump administration, and my academic research on authoritarian states in Central Asia. OPINION AND ANALYSIS I am a writer for a variety of publications. Here is a selection of my work: The Globe and Mail The plague of Donald Trump (3/25/20) As gerontocracy looms, American democracy may be running out of time (3/5/20) Americans are the witnesses to democracy's demise (2/3/20) Trump's strategy: Investigate the investigators (11/24/19) Why the impeachment hearings SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES 2016 “Recognize the Spies”: Transparency and Political Power in Uzbek Cyberspace. Social Analysis, 59 (4): 50-65 2014 The effect of the internet on civic engagement under authoritarianism: The case of Azerbaijan (third author; cowritten with Katy Pearce and Deen Freelon) 2012 Networked Authoritarianism and Social Media in Azerbaijan.TALKS/MEDIA
Here you will find information on my upcoming presentations and talks, recent media appearances, and past presentations. IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Late Night With Seth Meyers, “Sarah Kendzior on the Systemic Issues That Will Outlast Trump” (4/24/18) Late Night With Seth Meyers “Sarah Kendzior and the Problem With Journalists” (4/24/18) Riverfront Times, "How Sarah Kendzior became the prophetCV | SARAH KENDZIOR
Sarah Kendzior CV
HOW IMMIGRANTS TO AMERICA BECOME “WHITE” For De Correspondent, I wrote on the white supremacist movement surrounding the Trump campaign, and the complicated history of "whiteness" in America. An excerpt on Polish-Americans: Here it is important to understand how, exactly, Americans ‘become white’. The history of Polish-Americans is an illuminating example. Upon arriving in the U.S. en masse in the late THE MERCILESSNESS OF DIGITAL MEDIA For Al Jazeera, I wrote about the suicide of Amanda Todd, a teenager who was bullied and stalked online before committing suicide last week:. Digital memory spares no mercy. For teenagers like Amanda Todd, one regrettable decision can transform one’s life – or end it. The combination of digital media that can be cached and copied and monopoly platforms like Facebook that confine diverse THE PERILS OF THE PRESTIGE ECONOMY The Perils of the Prestige Economy. Posted on June 16, 2013 by Sarah Kendzior. I have a new interview with the website PolicyMic on what I call the prestige economy. The interview touches on a number of subjects – unpaid internships, the rising price of higher education, inequality and immobility, media, and geography of industry – and is THE BEST ADVICE ON TWITTER TROLLS WAS WRITTEN BY AL As I posted on Twitter earlier today, the best advice I’ve seen on dealing with Twitter trolls comes from the 11th century Sufi philosopher al-Ghazali and his text “Ayyuha l’Walad”. Al-Ghazali anticipated our social media problems by 1000 years. By al-Ghazali’s definition, there are four types of Twitter trolls. Below: a description of the trolls,PUBLIC SPEAKING
For over a decade, I have given talks around the world, frequently serving as a keynote speaker. Universities in the US at which I've given invited talks include Yale, Columbia, Washington University in St. Louis, University of California -- Berkeley, Georgetown, NYU, Tufts, Indiana University, University of Michigan, and George Washington University.TALKS/MEDIA
Here you will find information on my upcoming presentations and talks, recent media appearances, and past presentations. IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Late Night With Seth Meyers, “Sarah Kendzior on the Systemic Issues That Will Outlast Trump” (4/24/18) Late Night With Seth Meyers “Sarah Kendzior and the Problem With Journalists” (4/24/18) Riverfront Times, "How Sarah Kendzior became the prophet WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy. Posted on November 25, 2016 by Sarah Kendzior. We are running out of time. My interviews and articles about what awaits, written since Election Day: A fascist’s win, America’s moral loss (11/9/16) — Globe and Mail. We’re heading into dark times. WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY, PART XXIX Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, Part XXIX. Hello! Once again I was remiss in updating this website with everything I’ve been up to for the past few months, due to the sheer exhaustion caused by everything I’ve been up to for the past few months. I am finally done touring for “The View From Flyover Country” and I appreciate WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY, PART XX Here's a round-up of my latest articles and interviews: Gutting net neutrality is a death knell for the resistance (11/26/17) -- Globe and Mail It’s time to purge the pervs from politics, and let women step in (11/17/17) -- Fast Company Jeff Sessions’ testimony proves how little the truth matters under Trump (11/15/17) -- NBC News Rewire,The
TRUMP AND RUSSIA: MY ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS Here is a selection of notable articles and interviews I did on Russia, in reverse chronological order. If you're trying to catch up, this is good place to start. For my work on authoritarianism and/or the Trump administration more broadly, see the Opinion, Media and Scholarly Publications sections of this site. Was Trump wrong to hire WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY, PART XXI My latest articles and interviews: Alabama proves that appealing to Trump voters is a lost cause. The power is elsewhere (12/13/17) -- Globe and Mail With Trump, the GOP is playing a game of diminishing returns (12/13/17) AM Joy, on Trump's long history of being accused of rape and sexual assault (12/17/17) AM Joy, on Trump's statement THE FUTURE OF CENTRAL ASIAN STUDIES: A EULOGY The Future of Central Asian Studies: A Eulogy. Posted on March 8, 2015 by Sarah Kendzior. Yesterday I gave the keynote speech at the 22nd conference of the Association of Central Eurasian Students at Indiana University. I am an alumnus of the Central Eurasian Studies (CEUS) program at IU so it was exciting to get to talk to the next generationST. LOUIS ROUND-UP
Like many others in St. Louis, I've spent the last two weeks furious, grieving, afraid, and inspired by the protesters and caring citizens of this beautiful, broken city. I have a few new articles coming out, and I'll post them once they are online. But for now, here are some older pieces that shed light on St. Louis WHAT DOES THE ELECTION MEAN FOR POLAND AND POLISH Last week the Polish news outlet Onet.pl did a long Q & A with me about the US election, its relevance for Poland, and its relevance for Polish-Americans. A Polish-language excerpt of our conversation is up now on the website. This was an interesting interview, because I rarely get asked about Polish-American issues, and given the SARAH KENDZIORABOUTSCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONSOPINION AND ANALYSISINTERVIEWS AND MEDIAPUBLIC SPEAKINGCV What a week! My book “The View From Flyover Country” is now a critically acclaimed best-seller — again. This collection of essays on the erosion of institutions and social trust in the US was originally written in 2012-2014, self-published as an ebook on Amazon in 2015, became a big hit after the 2016 election, and was rereleased in print with additional essays about the Trump era on ABOUT | SARAH KENDZIOR About. I am a writer who lives in St Louis, Missouri. I am best known for my best-selling essay collection The View From Flyover Country, my reporting on political and economic problems in the US, my prescient coverage of the 2016 election and the Trump administration, and my academic research on authoritarian states in Central Asia. OPINION AND ANALYSIS I am a writer for a variety of publications. Here is a selection of my work: The Globe and Mail The plague of Donald Trump (3/25/20) As gerontocracy looms, American democracy may be running out of time (3/5/20) Americans are the witnesses to democracy's demise (2/3/20) Trump's strategy: Investigate the investigators (11/24/19) Why the impeachment hearings SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES 2016 “Recognize the Spies”: Transparency and Political Power in Uzbek Cyberspace. Social Analysis, 59 (4): 50-65 2014 The effect of the internet on civic engagement under authoritarianism: The case of Azerbaijan (third author; cowritten with Katy Pearce and Deen Freelon) 2012 Networked Authoritarianism and Social Media in Azerbaijan.CV | SARAH KENDZIOR
Sarah Kendzior CV
HOW IMMIGRANTS TO AMERICA BECOME “WHITE” For De Correspondent, I wrote on the white supremacist movement surrounding the Trump campaign, and the complicated history of "whiteness" in America. An excerpt on Polish-Americans: Here it is important to understand how, exactly, Americans ‘become white’. The history of Polish-Americans is an illuminating example. Upon arriving in the U.S. en masse in the late THE MERCILESSNESS OF DIGITAL MEDIA For Al Jazeera, I wrote about the suicide of Amanda Todd, a teenager who was bullied and stalked online before committing suicide last week:. Digital memory spares no mercy. For teenagers like Amanda Todd, one regrettable decision can transform one’s life – or end it. The combination of digital media that can be cached and copied and monopoly platforms like Facebook that confine diverse THE PERILS OF THE PRESTIGE ECONOMY The Perils of the Prestige Economy. Posted on June 16, 2013 by Sarah Kendzior. I have a new interview with the website PolicyMic on what I call the prestige economy. The interview touches on a number of subjects – unpaid internships, the rising price of higher education, inequality and immobility, media, and geography of industry – and isST. LOUIS ROUND-UP
Like many others in St. Louis, I've spent the last two weeks furious, grieving, afraid, and inspired by the protesters and caring citizens of this beautiful, broken city. I have a few new articles coming out, and I'll post them once they are online. But for now, here are some older pieces that shed light on St. Louis AN UNAIRED INTERVIEW ON TRUMP, AUTHORITARIANISM AND An unaired interview on Trump, authoritarianism and kleptocracy. A few weeks ago, a news outlet sent me some interview questions, which I answered too late for the interviewer to use and therefore they didn’t get printed. (I apologize to this outlet and to everyone else to whom I’ve replied late; it has been an overwhelming month andI’m
SARAH KENDZIORABOUTSCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONSOPINION AND ANALYSISINTERVIEWS AND MEDIAPUBLIC SPEAKINGCV What a week! My book “The View From Flyover Country” is now a critically acclaimed best-seller — again. This collection of essays on the erosion of institutions and social trust in the US was originally written in 2012-2014, self-published as an ebook on Amazon in 2015, became a big hit after the 2016 election, and was rereleased in print with additional essays about the Trump era on ABOUT | SARAH KENDZIOR About. I am a writer who lives in St Louis, Missouri. I am best known for my best-selling essay collection The View From Flyover Country, my reporting on political and economic problems in the US, my prescient coverage of the 2016 election and the Trump administration, and my academic research on authoritarian states in Central Asia. OPINION AND ANALYSIS I am a writer for a variety of publications. Here is a selection of my work: The Globe and Mail The plague of Donald Trump (3/25/20) As gerontocracy looms, American democracy may be running out of time (3/5/20) Americans are the witnesses to democracy's demise (2/3/20) Trump's strategy: Investigate the investigators (11/24/19) Why the impeachment hearings SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES 2016 “Recognize the Spies”: Transparency and Political Power in Uzbek Cyberspace. Social Analysis, 59 (4): 50-65 2014 The effect of the internet on civic engagement under authoritarianism: The case of Azerbaijan (third author; cowritten with Katy Pearce and Deen Freelon) 2012 Networked Authoritarianism and Social Media in Azerbaijan.CV | SARAH KENDZIOR
Sarah Kendzior CV
HOW IMMIGRANTS TO AMERICA BECOME “WHITE” For De Correspondent, I wrote on the white supremacist movement surrounding the Trump campaign, and the complicated history of "whiteness" in America. An excerpt on Polish-Americans: Here it is important to understand how, exactly, Americans ‘become white’. The history of Polish-Americans is an illuminating example. Upon arriving in the U.S. en masse in the late THE MERCILESSNESS OF DIGITAL MEDIA For Al Jazeera, I wrote about the suicide of Amanda Todd, a teenager who was bullied and stalked online before committing suicide last week:. Digital memory spares no mercy. For teenagers like Amanda Todd, one regrettable decision can transform one’s life – or end it. The combination of digital media that can be cached and copied and monopoly platforms like Facebook that confine diverse THE PERILS OF THE PRESTIGE ECONOMY The Perils of the Prestige Economy. Posted on June 16, 2013 by Sarah Kendzior. I have a new interview with the website PolicyMic on what I call the prestige economy. The interview touches on a number of subjects – unpaid internships, the rising price of higher education, inequality and immobility, media, and geography of industry – and isST. LOUIS ROUND-UP
Like many others in St. Louis, I've spent the last two weeks furious, grieving, afraid, and inspired by the protesters and caring citizens of this beautiful, broken city. I have a few new articles coming out, and I'll post them once they are online. But for now, here are some older pieces that shed light on St. Louis AN UNAIRED INTERVIEW ON TRUMP, AUTHORITARIANISM AND An unaired interview on Trump, authoritarianism and kleptocracy. A few weeks ago, a news outlet sent me some interview questions, which I answered too late for the interviewer to use and therefore they didn’t get printed. (I apologize to this outlet and to everyone else to whom I’ve replied late; it has been an overwhelming month andI’m
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Here you will find information on my upcoming presentations and talks, recent media appearances, and past presentations. IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Late Night With Seth Meyers, “Sarah Kendzior on the Systemic Issues That Will Outlast Trump” (4/24/18) Late Night With Seth Meyers “Sarah Kendzior and the Problem With Journalists” (4/24/18) Riverfront Times, "How Sarah Kendzior became the prophetPUBLIC SPEAKING
For over a decade, I have given talks around the world, frequently serving as a keynote speaker. Universities in the US at which I've given invited talks include Yale, Columbia, Washington University in St. Louis, University of California -- Berkeley, Georgetown, NYU, Tufts, Indiana University, University of Michigan, and George Washington University. HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW My new book, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, comes out April 7! You can preorder it now: HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT is a history of the past forty years of American decline and WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy. Posted on November 25, 2016 by Sarah Kendzior. We are running out of time. My interviews and articles about what awaits, written since Election Day: A fascist’s win, America’s moral loss (11/9/16) — Globe and Mail. We’re heading into dark times. MY SPEECH AT THE MARCH FOR TRUTH IN ST LOUIS Today I spoke at the March for Truth at St Louis. Thank you to everyone who came out to the Arch and heard me speak and a special thank you to the organizers! Below is a loose transcript of my talk: It’s great to be talking to you all in St. Louis. Since theelection,
THE FUTURE OF CENTRAL ASIAN STUDIES: A EULOGY The Future of Central Asian Studies: A Eulogy. Posted on March 8, 2015 by Sarah Kendzior. Yesterday I gave the keynote speech at the 22nd conference of the Association of Central Eurasian Students at Indiana University. I am an alumnus of the Central Eurasian Studies (CEUS) program at IU so it was exciting to get to talk to the next generation A DAY IN THE LIFE OF ST. LOUIS’S MOST DANGEROUS Located in St Louis’s impoverished north side, the neighborhood of College Hill is known as the most dangerous in the city. Shootings and homicides are a regular occurrence. In a year that has seen homicides in St Louis rise nearly 60%, College Hill was declared a crime “hot spot”, prompting an influx of 80 extra police officers in THE BEST ADVICE ON TWITTER TROLLS WAS WRITTEN BY AL As I posted on Twitter earlier today, the best advice I’ve seen on dealing with Twitter trolls comes from the 11th century Sufi philosopher al-Ghazali and his text “Ayyuha l’Walad”. Al-Ghazali anticipated our social media problems by 1000 years. By al-Ghazali’s definition, there are four types of Twitter trolls. Below: a description of the trolls, TRUMP AND THE MEDIA: EXPLOITATIVE SYNERGY Yesterday I tweeted about Trump’s relationship with the mass media. The tweets got a lot of attention, so I’m archiving them here. Trump captivates those sick of condescending, elite media. Media bromides about his genuine threat to US will do nothing to change minds. And the sudden turn from "Let's cover everything Trump does" to WHAT DOES THE ELECTION MEAN FOR POLAND AND POLISH Last week the Polish news outlet Onet.pl did a long Q & A with me about the US election, its relevance for Poland, and its relevance for Polish-Americans. A Polish-language excerpt of our conversation is up now on the website. This was an interesting interview, because I rarely get asked about Polish-American issues, and given the SARAH KENDZIORABOUTSCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONSOPINION AND ANALYSISINTERVIEWS AND MEDIAPUBLIC SPEAKINGCV What a week! My book “The View From Flyover Country” is now a critically acclaimed best-seller — again. This collection of essays on the erosion of institutions and social trust in the US was originally written in 2012-2014, self-published as an ebook on Amazon in 2015, became a big hit after the 2016 election, and was rereleased in print with additional essays about the Trump era on ABOUT | SARAH KENDZIOR About. I am a writer who lives in St Louis, Missouri. I am best known for my best-selling essay collection The View From Flyover Country, my reporting on political and economic problems in the US, my prescient coverage of the 2016 election and the Trump administration, and my academic research on authoritarian states in Central Asia. OPINION AND ANALYSIS I am a writer for a variety of publications. Here is a selection of my work: The Globe and Mail The plague of Donald Trump (3/25/20) As gerontocracy looms, American democracy may be running out of time (3/5/20) Americans are the witnesses to democracy's demise (2/3/20) Trump's strategy: Investigate the investigators (11/24/19) Why the impeachment hearings SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES 2016 “Recognize the Spies”: Transparency and Political Power in Uzbek Cyberspace. Social Analysis, 59 (4): 50-65 2014 The effect of the internet on civic engagement under authoritarianism: The case of Azerbaijan (third author; cowritten with Katy Pearce and Deen Freelon) 2012 Networked Authoritarianism and Social Media in Azerbaijan.CV | SARAH KENDZIOR
Sarah Kendzior CV
HOW IMMIGRANTS TO AMERICA BECOME “WHITE” For De Correspondent, I wrote on the white supremacist movement surrounding the Trump campaign, and the complicated history of "whiteness" in America. An excerpt on Polish-Americans: Here it is important to understand how, exactly, Americans ‘become white’. The history of Polish-Americans is an illuminating example. Upon arriving in the U.S. en masse in the late THE MERCILESSNESS OF DIGITAL MEDIA For Al Jazeera, I wrote about the suicide of Amanda Todd, a teenager who was bullied and stalked online before committing suicide last week:. Digital memory spares no mercy. For teenagers like Amanda Todd, one regrettable decision can transform one’s life – or end it. The combination of digital media that can be cached and copied and monopoly platforms like Facebook that confine diverse THE PERILS OF THE PRESTIGE ECONOMY The Perils of the Prestige Economy. Posted on June 16, 2013 by Sarah Kendzior. I have a new interview with the website PolicyMic on what I call the prestige economy. The interview touches on a number of subjects – unpaid internships, the rising price of higher education, inequality and immobility, media, and geography of industry – and isST. LOUIS ROUND-UP
Like many others in St. Louis, I've spent the last two weeks furious, grieving, afraid, and inspired by the protesters and caring citizens of this beautiful, broken city. I have a few new articles coming out, and I'll post them once they are online. But for now, here are some older pieces that shed light on St. Louis AN UNAIRED INTERVIEW ON TRUMP, AUTHORITARIANISM AND An unaired interview on Trump, authoritarianism and kleptocracy. A few weeks ago, a news outlet sent me some interview questions, which I answered too late for the interviewer to use and therefore they didn’t get printed. (I apologize to this outlet and to everyone else to whom I’ve replied late; it has been an overwhelming month andI’m
SARAH KENDZIORABOUTSCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONSOPINION AND ANALYSISINTERVIEWS AND MEDIAPUBLIC SPEAKINGCV What a week! My book “The View From Flyover Country” is now a critically acclaimed best-seller — again. This collection of essays on the erosion of institutions and social trust in the US was originally written in 2012-2014, self-published as an ebook on Amazon in 2015, became a big hit after the 2016 election, and was rereleased in print with additional essays about the Trump era on ABOUT | SARAH KENDZIOR About. I am a writer who lives in St Louis, Missouri. I am best known for my best-selling essay collection The View From Flyover Country, my reporting on political and economic problems in the US, my prescient coverage of the 2016 election and the Trump administration, and my academic research on authoritarian states in Central Asia. OPINION AND ANALYSIS I am a writer for a variety of publications. Here is a selection of my work: The Globe and Mail The plague of Donald Trump (3/25/20) As gerontocracy looms, American democracy may be running out of time (3/5/20) Americans are the witnesses to democracy's demise (2/3/20) Trump's strategy: Investigate the investigators (11/24/19) Why the impeachment hearings SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES 2016 “Recognize the Spies”: Transparency and Political Power in Uzbek Cyberspace. Social Analysis, 59 (4): 50-65 2014 The effect of the internet on civic engagement under authoritarianism: The case of Azerbaijan (third author; cowritten with Katy Pearce and Deen Freelon) 2012 Networked Authoritarianism and Social Media in Azerbaijan.CV | SARAH KENDZIOR
Sarah Kendzior CV
HOW IMMIGRANTS TO AMERICA BECOME “WHITE” For De Correspondent, I wrote on the white supremacist movement surrounding the Trump campaign, and the complicated history of "whiteness" in America. An excerpt on Polish-Americans: Here it is important to understand how, exactly, Americans ‘become white’. The history of Polish-Americans is an illuminating example. Upon arriving in the U.S. en masse in the late THE MERCILESSNESS OF DIGITAL MEDIA For Al Jazeera, I wrote about the suicide of Amanda Todd, a teenager who was bullied and stalked online before committing suicide last week:. Digital memory spares no mercy. For teenagers like Amanda Todd, one regrettable decision can transform one’s life – or end it. The combination of digital media that can be cached and copied and monopoly platforms like Facebook that confine diverse THE PERILS OF THE PRESTIGE ECONOMY The Perils of the Prestige Economy. Posted on June 16, 2013 by Sarah Kendzior. I have a new interview with the website PolicyMic on what I call the prestige economy. The interview touches on a number of subjects – unpaid internships, the rising price of higher education, inequality and immobility, media, and geography of industry – and isST. LOUIS ROUND-UP
Like many others in St. Louis, I've spent the last two weeks furious, grieving, afraid, and inspired by the protesters and caring citizens of this beautiful, broken city. I have a few new articles coming out, and I'll post them once they are online. But for now, here are some older pieces that shed light on St. Louis AN UNAIRED INTERVIEW ON TRUMP, AUTHORITARIANISM AND An unaired interview on Trump, authoritarianism and kleptocracy. A few weeks ago, a news outlet sent me some interview questions, which I answered too late for the interviewer to use and therefore they didn’t get printed. (I apologize to this outlet and to everyone else to whom I’ve replied late; it has been an overwhelming month andI’m
TALKS/MEDIA
Here you will find information on my upcoming presentations and talks, recent media appearances, and past presentations. IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Late Night With Seth Meyers, “Sarah Kendzior on the Systemic Issues That Will Outlast Trump” (4/24/18) Late Night With Seth Meyers “Sarah Kendzior and the Problem With Journalists” (4/24/18) Riverfront Times, "How Sarah Kendzior became the prophetPUBLIC SPEAKING
For over a decade, I have given talks around the world, frequently serving as a keynote speaker. Universities in the US at which I've given invited talks include Yale, Columbia, Washington University in St. Louis, University of California -- Berkeley, Georgetown, NYU, Tufts, Indiana University, University of Michigan, and George Washington University. HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW My new book, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, comes out April 7! You can preorder it now: HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT is a history of the past forty years of American decline and WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy. Posted on November 25, 2016 by Sarah Kendzior. We are running out of time. My interviews and articles about what awaits, written since Election Day: A fascist’s win, America’s moral loss (11/9/16) — Globe and Mail. We’re heading into dark times. MY SPEECH AT THE MARCH FOR TRUTH IN ST LOUIS Today I spoke at the March for Truth at St Louis. Thank you to everyone who came out to the Arch and heard me speak and a special thank you to the organizers! Below is a loose transcript of my talk: It’s great to be talking to you all in St. Louis. Since theelection,
THE FUTURE OF CENTRAL ASIAN STUDIES: A EULOGY The Future of Central Asian Studies: A Eulogy. Posted on March 8, 2015 by Sarah Kendzior. Yesterday I gave the keynote speech at the 22nd conference of the Association of Central Eurasian Students at Indiana University. I am an alumnus of the Central Eurasian Studies (CEUS) program at IU so it was exciting to get to talk to the next generation A DAY IN THE LIFE OF ST. LOUIS’S MOST DANGEROUS Located in St Louis’s impoverished north side, the neighborhood of College Hill is known as the most dangerous in the city. Shootings and homicides are a regular occurrence. In a year that has seen homicides in St Louis rise nearly 60%, College Hill was declared a crime “hot spot”, prompting an influx of 80 extra police officers in THE BEST ADVICE ON TWITTER TROLLS WAS WRITTEN BY AL As I posted on Twitter earlier today, the best advice I’ve seen on dealing with Twitter trolls comes from the 11th century Sufi philosopher al-Ghazali and his text “Ayyuha l’Walad”. Al-Ghazali anticipated our social media problems by 1000 years. By al-Ghazali’s definition, there are four types of Twitter trolls. Below: a description of the trolls, TRUMP AND THE MEDIA: EXPLOITATIVE SYNERGY Yesterday I tweeted about Trump’s relationship with the mass media. The tweets got a lot of attention, so I’m archiving them here. Trump captivates those sick of condescending, elite media. Media bromides about his genuine threat to US will do nothing to change minds. And the sudden turn from "Let's cover everything Trump does" to WHAT DOES THE ELECTION MEAN FOR POLAND AND POLISH Last week the Polish news outlet Onet.pl did a long Q & A with me about the US election, its relevance for Poland, and its relevance for Polish-Americans. A Polish-language excerpt of our conversation is up now on the website. This was an interesting interview, because I rarely get asked about Polish-American issues, and given the SARAH KENDZIORABOUTSCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONSOPINION AND ANALYSISINTERVIEWS AND MEDIAPUBLIC SPEAKINGCV What a week! My book “The View From Flyover Country” is now a critically acclaimed best-seller — again. This collection of essays on the erosion of institutions and social trust in the US was originally written in 2012-2014, self-published as an ebook on Amazon in 2015, became a big hit after the 2016 election, and was rereleased in print with additional essays about the Trump era on ABOUT | SARAH KENDZIOR About. I am a writer who lives in St Louis, Missouri. I am best known for my best-selling essay collection The View From Flyover Country, my reporting on political and economic problems in the US, my prescient coverage of the 2016 election and the Trump administration, and my academic research on authoritarian states in Central Asia. OPINION AND ANALYSIS I am a writer for a variety of publications. Here is a selection of my work: The Globe and Mail The plague of Donald Trump (3/25/20) As gerontocracy looms, American democracy may be running out of time (3/5/20) Americans are the witnesses to democracy's demise (2/3/20) Trump's strategy: Investigate the investigators (11/24/19) Why the impeachment hearings SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES 2016 “Recognize the Spies”: Transparency and Political Power in Uzbek Cyberspace. Social Analysis, 59 (4): 50-65 2014 The effect of the internet on civic engagement under authoritarianism: The case of Azerbaijan (third author; cowritten with Katy Pearce and Deen Freelon) 2012 Networked Authoritarianism and Social Media in Azerbaijan. HOW IMMIGRANTS TO AMERICA BECOME “WHITE” For De Correspondent, I wrote on the white supremacist movement surrounding the Trump campaign, and the complicated history of "whiteness" in America. An excerpt on Polish-Americans: Here it is important to understand how, exactly, Americans ‘become white’. The history of Polish-Americans is an illuminating example. Upon arriving in the U.S. en masse in the late HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW My new book, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, comes out April 7! You can preorder it now: HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT is a history of the past forty years of American decline and THE MERCILESSNESS OF DIGITAL MEDIA For Al Jazeera, I wrote about the suicide of Amanda Todd, a teenager who was bullied and stalked online before committing suicide last week:. Digital memory spares no mercy. For teenagers like Amanda Todd, one regrettable decision can transform one’s life – or end it. The combination of digital media that can be cached and copied and monopoly platforms like Facebook that confine diverse WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY, PART XI How the hell has it only been two weeks since Comey was fired? Anyway. In the meantime, I went to Estonia to speak to foreign dignitaries, came back, wrote some articles and did some interviews. What a crazy two weeks. Here is the latest. GOP: It’s time to get off the TrumpTrain. You have
WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY PART XV My latest articles and interviews: First they came for trans Americans. Who will be next? (7/27/17) — Globe and Mail How Trump fullfilled a 30-year fantasy of becoming president, with a little help from the Kremlin (7/26/17). AM Joy, “Trump is an orange puppet who is hooked up with oligarchs and possibly owes them a lot of money” (7/29/17) Colin McEnroe Show, “The Trump Era: A WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY PART V My latest articles and interviews: When Trudeau met Trump: Canadian exceptionalism, American envy (2/13/17) -- Globe and Mail It's already happened here (2/9/17) -- The Baffler The Prestige Economy (2/1/17) -- The Common Reader CJR, Beyond the parachute: Newsrooms rethink centralized model (2/6/17) Crooks and SARAH KENDZIORABOUTSCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONSOPINION AND ANALYSISINTERVIEWS AND MEDIAPUBLIC SPEAKINGCV What a week! My book “The View From Flyover Country” is now a critically acclaimed best-seller — again. This collection of essays on the erosion of institutions and social trust in the US was originally written in 2012-2014, self-published as an ebook on Amazon in 2015, became a big hit after the 2016 election, and was rereleased in print with additional essays about the Trump era on ABOUT | SARAH KENDZIOR About. I am a writer who lives in St Louis, Missouri. I am best known for my best-selling essay collection The View From Flyover Country, my reporting on political and economic problems in the US, my prescient coverage of the 2016 election and the Trump administration, and my academic research on authoritarian states in Central Asia. OPINION AND ANALYSIS I am a writer for a variety of publications. Here is a selection of my work: The Globe and Mail The plague of Donald Trump (3/25/20) As gerontocracy looms, American democracy may be running out of time (3/5/20) Americans are the witnesses to democracy's demise (2/3/20) Trump's strategy: Investigate the investigators (11/24/19) Why the impeachment hearings SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES 2016 “Recognize the Spies”: Transparency and Political Power in Uzbek Cyberspace. Social Analysis, 59 (4): 50-65 2014 The effect of the internet on civic engagement under authoritarianism: The case of Azerbaijan (third author; cowritten with Katy Pearce and Deen Freelon) 2012 Networked Authoritarianism and Social Media in Azerbaijan. HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW My new book, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, comes out April 7! You can preorder it now: HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT is a history of the past forty years of American decline and THE MERCILESSNESS OF DIGITAL MEDIA For Al Jazeera, I wrote about the suicide of Amanda Todd, a teenager who was bullied and stalked online before committing suicide last week:. Digital memory spares no mercy. For teenagers like Amanda Todd, one regrettable decision can transform one’s life – or end it. The combination of digital media that can be cached and copied and monopoly platforms like Facebook that confine diverse WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY, PART XX Here's a round-up of my latest articles and interviews: Gutting net neutrality is a death knell for the resistance (11/26/17) -- Globe and Mail It’s time to purge the pervs from politics, and let women step in (11/17/17) -- Fast Company Jeff Sessions’ testimony proves how little the truth matters under Trump (11/15/17) -- NBC News Rewire,The
WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY, PART XI How the hell has it only been two weeks since Comey was fired? Anyway. In the meantime, I went to Estonia to speak to foreign dignitaries, came back, wrote some articles and did some interviews. What a crazy two weeks. Here is the latest. GOP: It’s time to get off the TrumpTrain. You have
WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY PART XV My latest articles and interviews: First they came for trans Americans. Who will be next? (7/27/17) — Globe and Mail How Trump fullfilled a 30-year fantasy of becoming president, with a little help from the Kremlin (7/26/17). AM Joy, “Trump is an orange puppet who is hooked up with oligarchs and possibly owes them a lot of money” (7/29/17) Colin McEnroe Show, “The Trump Era: A WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY PART V My latest articles and interviews: When Trudeau met Trump: Canadian exceptionalism, American envy (2/13/17) -- Globe and Mail It's already happened here (2/9/17) -- The Baffler The Prestige Economy (2/1/17) -- The Common Reader CJR, Beyond the parachute: Newsrooms rethink centralized model (2/6/17) Crooks andSARAH KENDZIOR
What a week! My book “The View From Flyover Country” is now a critically acclaimed best-seller — again. This collection of essays on the erosion of institutions and social trust in the US was originally written in 2012-2014, self-published as an ebook on Amazon in 2015, became a big hit after the 2016 election, and was rereleased in print with additional essays about the Trump era onSARAH KENDZIOR
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, Part XXVI. Posted on April 15, 2018 by Sarah Kendzior. This week my book “The View From Flyover Country” gets released in print for the first time. This collection of essays on the collapse of institutions and trust in the US was a critically acclaimed bestseller after it was first . HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW My new book, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, comes out April 7! You can preorder it now: HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT is a history of the past forty years of American decline and WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY, PART XI How the hell has it only been two weeks since Comey was fired? Anyway. In the meantime, I went to Estonia to speak to foreign dignitaries, came back, wrote some articles and did some interviews. What a crazy two weeks. Here is the latest. GOP: It’s time to get off the TrumpTrain. You have
WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY, PART XX Here's a round-up of my latest articles and interviews: Gutting net neutrality is a death knell for the resistance (11/26/17) -- Globe and Mail It’s time to purge the pervs from politics, and let women step in (11/17/17) -- Fast Company Jeff Sessions’ testimony proves how little the truth matters under Trump (11/15/17) -- NBC News Rewire,The
WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY, PART XXIX Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, Part XXIX. Hello! Once again I was remiss in updating this website with everything I’ve been up to for the past few months, due to the sheer exhaustion caused by everything I’ve been up to for the past few months. I am finally done touring for “The View From Flyover Country” and I appreciate WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY PART XV My latest articles and interviews: First they came for trans Americans. Who will be next? (7/27/17) — Globe and Mail How Trump fullfilled a 30-year fantasy of becoming president, with a little help from the Kremlin (7/26/17). AM Joy, “Trump is an orange puppet who is hooked up with oligarchs and possibly owes them a lot of money” (7/29/17) Colin McEnroe Show, “The Trump Era: A WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY PART V My latest articles and interviews: When Trudeau met Trump: Canadian exceptionalism, American envy (2/13/17) -- Globe and Mail It's already happened here (2/9/17) -- The Baffler The Prestige Economy (2/1/17) -- The Common Reader CJR, Beyond the parachute: Newsrooms rethink centralized model (2/6/17) Crooks and DID TRUMP BUY THE FOURTH ESTATE? I have been writing and tweeting about Trump's relationship with the US media for over a year. Now I have written a summary of the fiasco, appropriately published in a Canadian newspaper, where I can speak freely. An excerpt: Some have accused the media of fabricating a “horse race,” but this is an erroneous assumption. As WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY, PART X My articles and interviews from the past four days: Marie Claire: The healthcare bill exposes Trump’s chilling authoritarian agenda (5/8/17) Baltic News Service, "Kendzior: Truth Still Matters" (5/8/17) Baltic News Service: "Kendzior: Trump's feud with the media is largely fake" (5/7/17) World Policy On Air: "Fabricated terrorism". Podcast on parallels between Trump admin and Uzbekistan (5/5 SARAH KENDZIORABOUTSCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONSOPINION AND ANALYSISINTERVIEWS AND MEDIAPUBLIC SPEAKINGCV What a week! My book “The View From Flyover Country” is now a critically acclaimed best-seller — again. This collection of essays on the erosion of institutions and social trust in the US was originally written in 2012-2014, self-published as an ebook on Amazon in 2015, became a big hit after the 2016 election, and was rereleased in print with additional essays about the Trump era on ABOUT | SARAH KENDZIOR About. I am a writer who lives in St Louis, Missouri. I am best known for my best-selling essay collection The View From Flyover Country, my reporting on political and economic problems in the US, my prescient coverage of the 2016 election and the Trump administration, and my academic research on authoritarian states in Central Asia. OPINION AND ANALYSIS I am a writer for a variety of publications. Here is a selection of my work: The Globe and Mail The plague of Donald Trump (3/25/20) As gerontocracy looms, American democracy may be running out of time (3/5/20) Americans are the witnesses to democracy's demise (2/3/20) Trump's strategy: Investigate the investigators (11/24/19) Why the impeachment hearings SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES 2016 “Recognize the Spies”: Transparency and Political Power in Uzbek Cyberspace. Social Analysis, 59 (4): 50-65 2014 The effect of the internet on civic engagement under authoritarianism: The case of Azerbaijan (third author; cowritten with Katy Pearce and Deen Freelon) 2012 Networked Authoritarianism and Social Media in Azerbaijan. HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW My new book, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, comes out April 7! You can preorder it now: HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT is a history of the past forty years of American decline and THE MERCILESSNESS OF DIGITAL MEDIA For Al Jazeera, I wrote about the suicide of Amanda Todd, a teenager who was bullied and stalked online before committing suicide last week:. Digital memory spares no mercy. For teenagers like Amanda Todd, one regrettable decision can transform one’s life – or end it. The combination of digital media that can be cached and copied and monopoly platforms like Facebook that confine diverse WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY, PART XX Here's a round-up of my latest articles and interviews: Gutting net neutrality is a death knell for the resistance (11/26/17) -- Globe and Mail It’s time to purge the pervs from politics, and let women step in (11/17/17) -- Fast Company Jeff Sessions’ testimony proves how little the truth matters under Trump (11/15/17) -- NBC News Rewire,The
WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY, PART XI How the hell has it only been two weeks since Comey was fired? Anyway. In the meantime, I went to Estonia to speak to foreign dignitaries, came back, wrote some articles and did some interviews. What a crazy two weeks. Here is the latest. GOP: It’s time to get off the TrumpTrain. You have
WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY PART XV My latest articles and interviews: First they came for trans Americans. Who will be next? (7/27/17) — Globe and Mail How Trump fullfilled a 30-year fantasy of becoming president, with a little help from the Kremlin (7/26/17). AM Joy, “Trump is an orange puppet who is hooked up with oligarchs and possibly owes them a lot of money” (7/29/17) Colin McEnroe Show, “The Trump Era: A WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY PART V My latest articles and interviews: When Trudeau met Trump: Canadian exceptionalism, American envy (2/13/17) -- Globe and Mail It's already happened here (2/9/17) -- The Baffler The Prestige Economy (2/1/17) -- The Common Reader CJR, Beyond the parachute: Newsrooms rethink centralized model (2/6/17) Crooks and SARAH KENDZIORABOUTSCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONSOPINION AND ANALYSISINTERVIEWS AND MEDIAPUBLIC SPEAKINGCV What a week! My book “The View From Flyover Country” is now a critically acclaimed best-seller — again. This collection of essays on the erosion of institutions and social trust in the US was originally written in 2012-2014, self-published as an ebook on Amazon in 2015, became a big hit after the 2016 election, and was rereleased in print with additional essays about the Trump era on ABOUT | SARAH KENDZIOR About. I am a writer who lives in St Louis, Missouri. I am best known for my best-selling essay collection The View From Flyover Country, my reporting on political and economic problems in the US, my prescient coverage of the 2016 election and the Trump administration, and my academic research on authoritarian states in Central Asia. OPINION AND ANALYSIS I am a writer for a variety of publications. Here is a selection of my work: The Globe and Mail The plague of Donald Trump (3/25/20) As gerontocracy looms, American democracy may be running out of time (3/5/20) Americans are the witnesses to democracy's demise (2/3/20) Trump's strategy: Investigate the investigators (11/24/19) Why the impeachment hearings SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES 2016 “Recognize the Spies”: Transparency and Political Power in Uzbek Cyberspace. Social Analysis, 59 (4): 50-65 2014 The effect of the internet on civic engagement under authoritarianism: The case of Azerbaijan (third author; cowritten with Katy Pearce and Deen Freelon) 2012 Networked Authoritarianism and Social Media in Azerbaijan. HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW My new book, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, comes out April 7! You can preorder it now: HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT is a history of the past forty years of American decline and THE MERCILESSNESS OF DIGITAL MEDIA For Al Jazeera, I wrote about the suicide of Amanda Todd, a teenager who was bullied and stalked online before committing suicide last week:. Digital memory spares no mercy. For teenagers like Amanda Todd, one regrettable decision can transform one’s life – or end it. The combination of digital media that can be cached and copied and monopoly platforms like Facebook that confine diverse WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY, PART XX Here's a round-up of my latest articles and interviews: Gutting net neutrality is a death knell for the resistance (11/26/17) -- Globe and Mail It’s time to purge the pervs from politics, and let women step in (11/17/17) -- Fast Company Jeff Sessions’ testimony proves how little the truth matters under Trump (11/15/17) -- NBC News Rewire,The
WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY, PART XI How the hell has it only been two weeks since Comey was fired? Anyway. In the meantime, I went to Estonia to speak to foreign dignitaries, came back, wrote some articles and did some interviews. What a crazy two weeks. Here is the latest. GOP: It’s time to get off the TrumpTrain. You have
WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY PART XV My latest articles and interviews: First they came for trans Americans. Who will be next? (7/27/17) — Globe and Mail How Trump fullfilled a 30-year fantasy of becoming president, with a little help from the Kremlin (7/26/17). AM Joy, “Trump is an orange puppet who is hooked up with oligarchs and possibly owes them a lot of money” (7/29/17) Colin McEnroe Show, “The Trump Era: A WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY PART V My latest articles and interviews: When Trudeau met Trump: Canadian exceptionalism, American envy (2/13/17) -- Globe and Mail It's already happened here (2/9/17) -- The Baffler The Prestige Economy (2/1/17) -- The Common Reader CJR, Beyond the parachute: Newsrooms rethink centralized model (2/6/17) Crooks andSARAH KENDZIOR
What a week! My book “The View From Flyover Country” is now a critically acclaimed best-seller — again. This collection of essays on the erosion of institutions and social trust in the US was originally written in 2012-2014, self-published as an ebook on Amazon in 2015, became a big hit after the 2016 election, and was rereleased in print with additional essays about the Trump era onSARAH KENDZIOR
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, Part XXVI. Posted on April 15, 2018 by Sarah Kendzior. This week my book “The View From Flyover Country” gets released in print for the first time. This collection of essays on the collapse of institutions and trust in the US was a critically acclaimed bestseller after it was first .TALKS/MEDIA
Here you will find information on my upcoming presentations and talks, recent media appearances, and past presentations. IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Late Night With Seth Meyers, “Sarah Kendzior on the Systemic Issues That Will Outlast Trump” (4/24/18) Late Night With Seth Meyers “Sarah Kendzior and the Problem With Journalists” (4/24/18) Riverfront Times, "How Sarah Kendzior became the prophet HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW My new book, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, comes out April 7! You can preorder it now: HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT is a history of the past forty years of American decline and WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY, PART XI How the hell has it only been two weeks since Comey was fired? Anyway. In the meantime, I went to Estonia to speak to foreign dignitaries, came back, wrote some articles and did some interviews. What a crazy two weeks. Here is the latest. GOP: It’s time to get off the TrumpTrain. You have
WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY, PART XX Here's a round-up of my latest articles and interviews: Gutting net neutrality is a death knell for the resistance (11/26/17) -- Globe and Mail It’s time to purge the pervs from politics, and let women step in (11/17/17) -- Fast Company Jeff Sessions’ testimony proves how little the truth matters under Trump (11/15/17) -- NBC News Rewire,The
WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY, PART XXIX Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, Part XXIX. Hello! Once again I was remiss in updating this website with everything I’ve been up to for the past few months, due to the sheer exhaustion caused by everything I’ve been up to for the past few months. I am finally done touring for “The View From Flyover Country” and I appreciate WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY PART XV My latest articles and interviews: First they came for trans Americans. Who will be next? (7/27/17) — Globe and Mail How Trump fullfilled a 30-year fantasy of becoming president, with a little help from the Kremlin (7/26/17). AM Joy, “Trump is an orange puppet who is hooked up with oligarchs and possibly owes them a lot of money” (7/29/17) Colin McEnroe Show, “The Trump Era: A WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY PART V My latest articles and interviews: When Trudeau met Trump: Canadian exceptionalism, American envy (2/13/17) -- Globe and Mail It's already happened here (2/9/17) -- The Baffler The Prestige Economy (2/1/17) -- The Common Reader CJR, Beyond the parachute: Newsrooms rethink centralized model (2/6/17) Crooks and WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY, PART X My articles and interviews from the past four days: Marie Claire: The healthcare bill exposes Trump’s chilling authoritarian agenda (5/8/17) Baltic News Service, "Kendzior: Truth Still Matters" (5/8/17) Baltic News Service: "Kendzior: Trump's feud with the media is largely fake" (5/7/17) World Policy On Air: "Fabricated terrorism". Podcast on parallels between Trump admin and Uzbekistan (5/5SARAH KENDZIOR
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HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW! Posted on January 12, 2020by Sarah Kendzior
My new book, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, comes out April 7! You canpreorder it now :
HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT is a history of the past forty years of American decline and how Trump and his cohort both enabled and benefited from elite criminal impunity. It’s also the story of what it’s like to live day to day in an America dominated by a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government — and what that entrenched corruption means for future generations. If you want to understand where we’re going, you need to know the truth about how we got here. Here is the description from my publisher, Flatiron Books: _“NEW YORK TIMES_ BESTSELLING AUTHOR SARAH KENDZIOR DOCUMENTS THE TRUTH ABOUT THE CALCULATED RISE TO POWER OF DONALD TRUMP SINCE THE 1980S AND HOW THE EROSION OF OUR LIBERTIES MADE AN AMERICAN DEMAGOGUE POSSIBLE. The story of Donald Trump’s rise to power is the story of a buried American history – buried because people in power liked it that way. It was visible without being seen, influential without being named, ubiquitous without being overt. Sarah Kendzior’s _Hiding in Plain Sight_ pulls back the veil on a history spanning decades, a history of an American autocrat in the making. In doing so, she reveals the inherent fragility of American democracy – how our continual loss of freedom, the rise of consolidated corruption, and the secrets behind a burgeoning autocratic United States have been hiding in plain sight for decades. In Kendzior’s signature and celebrated style, she expertly outlines Trump’s meteoric rise from the 1980s until today, interlinking key moments of his life with the degradation of the American political system and the continual erosion of our civil liberties by foreign powers. Kendzior also offers a never-before-seen look at her lifelong tendency to be in the wrong place at the wrong time – living in New York through 9/11 and in St. Louis during the Ferguson uprising, and researching media and authoritarianism when Trump emerged using the same tactics as the post-Soviet dictatorships she had long studied. It is a terrible feeling to sense a threat coming, but it is worse when we let apathy, doubt, and fear prevent us from preparing ourselves. _Hiding in Plain Sight_ confronts the injustice we have too long ignored because the truth is the only way forward.” Publisher’s Weeklysays: “An
impeccably researched chronicle…she offers a few surprises and many valuable insights into the president’s psychological motivations and methods of manipulation. This comprehensive, page-turning account presents a stark and uncompromising indictment of the Trump presidency as the culmination of a ‘decades-long erosion of American stability, integrity, and democracy.'”Kirkus
says: “A scathing indictment of Donald Trump…Kendzior offers fresh views based on her experiences living in the declining economy of the Midwest and on observations as an academic researcher studying dictatorships in the former Soviet Union….. A passionate call for immediate action against the ‘transnational crime syndicate’ that has supplanted the U.S. government.”PRE-ORDER IT TODAY!
Posted in Uncategorized WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY, PART XXIX Posted on December 31, 2018by Sarah Kendzior
Hello! Once again I was remiss in updating this website with everything I’ve been up to for the past few months, due to the sheer exhaustion caused by everything I’ve been up to for the past few months. I am finally done touring for “The View From FlyoverCountry” and I
appreciate everyone who turned out to see me at bookstores and book fairs across the country this year. My podcast, Gaslit Nation , has now gone weekly thanks to the support of our listeners (you can donate here ) and it will continue running through 2019. I have been writing articles less often because I’m busy working on the podcast and on a new book, and that will remain true for the first half of next year. The best ways to keep up with my work and ideas are by subscribing to Gaslit Nation and following me onTwitter.
Anyway, here are some of the articles, interviews, and talks I’vedone recently:
GLOBE AND MAIL:
If the midterms were a test of the country’s character, Americansfailed
(11/7/18)
Kavanaugh’s appointment isn’t a step backward, but a plunge intoan abyss
(10/6/18)
The resistance to Donald Trump is not what you think(9/29/18)
Kavanaugh hearing: When you’re a well-connected judge, you can doanything
(9/21/18)
GASLIT NATION:
Festivus Special: Mueller’s Low-Hanging Fruit(12/19/18)
Individual One: The New Name of the GOP(12/12/18)
Kleptocracy World Order(12/5/18)
Happy Thanksgiving: We’re Grateful for Canvassers(11/21/18)
The Blue Wave Continues: Kansas Rising(11/14/18)
Midterms Special: The Blue Wave Has Begun(11/8/18)
Halloween Special: The Kathy Griffin Interview(10/31/18
A Foreign Policy for the Left: Put Gas Station Dictatorships Out ofBusiness
(10/25/18)
The Media Industry is Complicit, and Good Journalists Pay the Price(10/17/18)
Robert Mueller Will Not Save You(10/10/18)
Kavanaugh Crisis and the Death of Checks and Balances(10/3/18)
The American Crisis: The View From Flyover Country, Part II(9/17/18)
The American Crisis: The View from Flyover Country, Part I(9/3/18)
SOME INTERVIEWS:
Washington Journal
,
CSPAN, hour-long interview on political and economic issues (12/29/18)AM Joy
,
interviewed about Maria Butina (12/16/18)Yahoo News
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“Sarah Kendzior: It’s pathetic that the NRA and Republicans are this easily manipulated and complicit” (12/16/18)CBC News
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“It’s an arms race”, 12/4/18The Current
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interviewed about truth in the Trump era, 12/4/18 Pearson College talk and Q &A,
11/29/18
NPR , “View From Flyover Country” selected as one of the best books of 2018, 11/27/18Marc Bernier Show
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interview, 11/17/18
MSNBC/Alternet
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“Expert in authoritarianism reveals why Trump shirked visit to US military cemetery in Paris” , 11/11/18AM Joy
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interviewed about Obama and birtherism, 10/16/18Boston Book Fest
, panel
on politics and economy in the US, 10/13/18Rick Smith Show
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interview about Trump shitshow, 10/6/18 Panel with Michael Isikoff on Trump and Russia, St
Louis Book Fest, 9/22/18Rick Smith Show
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interview on Kavanaugh and more, 9/20/18AM Joy ,
interview on the Trump and media manipulation (9/9/18) Posted in Uncategorized WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY, PART XXVIII Posted on October 1, 2018by Sarah Kendzior
Apologies for the very long delay in website updates! We are now really on “Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, Part OneBillion”.
Here’s what happened on a personal level since I last posted in May. My book, _The View From Flyover Country_, became a bestseller. (You can buy it here .) I went on tour all over the country, and am still somewhat on tour, with appearances in Boston and Miami coming up in the next month. I signed a deal with Flatiron Books to write two more books, the first of which will come out in mid-2020. In July, I launched a biweekly podcast with my friend and fellow journalist Andrea Chalupa. It’s called “Gaslit Nation” and it chronicles corruption in the Trump administration and the rise of authoritarianism in the US. “Gaslit Nation” quickly became a top 100 podcast for News & Politics and garnered over 1000 five star reviews on iTunes, stunning me and Andrea. (We really thought it would just be our moms and our stalkers listening!) Andrea and I are now trying to raise enough money for the podcast to go weekly. (If you would like to help keep us going, our Patreon is here .) As all of this happened, the country continued to collapse, and I got lax about updating this site given the constant bombardment of horror and chaos and sadness and rage. It’s been an overwhelming time. I’m guessing you understand. Anyway, here is a sampling of articles, interviews, and podcast episodes I did over the past four months. The rest are out there somewhere! I’ve gotten a lot of requests to update this website more frequently and I’ll try to keep it up. I’m very grateful for all the support from my readers and listeners. Finally, and this goes without saying: PLEASE VOTE IN THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS. Vote like it’s the last ostensibly free and fair election you’ll ever see. Because it might be.GLOBE AND MAIL
The resistance to Donald Trump is not what you think(9/29/18)
Kavanaugh hearing: When you’re a well-connected judge, you can doanything
(9/21/18)
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For Paul Manafort, justice is finally served — but is it too latefor America?
(8/22/18)
The unspeakable cruelty of Trump’s child migrant camps(6/15/18)
GASLIT NATION
Part I: Manafort, Wikileaks, and Trump’s Long Bromance With Putin(7/9/18)
Part II: Harry Reid, Access Hollywood, and the Comey Chameleon(7/23/18)
Part III: Robert Mueller and the Iron Triangles(8/7/18)
Episode 4: Computer Scientist Barbara Simons on Hacking, Paper Ballots, and Securing US Elections (8/21/18) Episode 5: The American Crisis, Part I (9/3/18) Episode 6: The American Crisis, Part II (9/19/18)SOME INTERVIEWS
Raw Story
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“Jared Kushner ‘needs to be out now’ says expert on authoritarianism” (8/16/18)Raw Story
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“Authoritarianism expert demand Mueller act now as slow motion Saturday Night massacre rolls” (8/13 18) (MSNBC interview with meinside)
Raw Story
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“Authoritarianism expert hints Linsday Graham may be covering for Trump” (MSNBC clip inside)Raw Story
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“Authoritarianism expert warns GOP may use claims of Russian hacking to avoid conceding seats” (8/4/18) (MSNBC interview with me inside)WUYM
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“Authoritarianism and Truth in Trump’s America: A Talk in Trump’s America” (8/3/18)Triad City Beat
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“Unsolicied Endorsement: Gaslit Nation Podcast” (8/2/18)Yahoo News
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“Sarah Kendzior: Maria Butina has been meeting with Republicans, NRA members for a long time” (7/21/18)AV Club
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review of my podcast Gaslit Nation (7/16/18)CBS News
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interview on the Missouri Senate race (7/15/18)AM Joy
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interview on indictments (7/14/18)Eclectica Blog
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“Do EVRYTHING You Can — with special guest Sarah Kendzior”(7/10/18)
Rick Smith Show
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interview on SCOTUS, migrant kids, more (7/10/18)Hypoallergenic
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“The America That Wealth Forgot” (6/27/18)HEC_TV
“One
on One with Sarah Kendzior” (6/17/18)AM Joy
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interview on Trump’s alliance of autocrats (6/22/18)Crooks and Liars
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“MSNBC Pundit: “Trump is not working for the United States”(6/15/18)
Street Roots
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“Political journalist Sarah Kendzior on what Middle America can teach the rest of the country” (6/08/18) Charlie Brennan Show,
interview on St Louis, the economy, politics, more (5/22/18)Rick Smith Show
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“Sarah Kendzior sheds light on kleptocracy” (5/21/18)AM Joy
Interview
wondering why officials did not intervene while aware a criminal syndicate was making moves on the executive branch (5/19/18)AM Joy
“Trump
put a ‘USA – Going Out of Business Sale’ sign on the White Houselawn” (5/19/18)
Traverse City Record Eagle“Flyover
country offers a grim view of America” (5/18/18) Colin McEnroe Show , Connecticut NPR, “An Hour With Sarah Kendzior”, (5/18/18) Posted in Uncategorized WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY, PART XXVII Posted on May 23, 2018by Sarah Kendzior
I have been on a book tour for the past few weeks, and will be back on it again in early June. Upcoming dates: 6/7: Milwaukee, Boswell Book Company, Q & A and book signing, 7:00 pm 6/9: Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest, 1:30 panel and booksigning
6/13: Portland, OR book event with Amy Siskind, Alberta Rose Theater,6:00
“The View From Flyover Country” is now a NYT bestseller, our country is still a burgeoning autocracy, and my corrupt governor is facing impeachment, which means I’ve been spending a lot of time doing interviews. Here are the last two weeks — I particularly recommend the Colin McEnroe and Rick Smith ones for my thoughts on the latest with the Trump administration: Charlie Brennan Show,
interview on St Louis, the economy, politics, more (5/22/18)Rick Smith Show
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“Sarah Kendzior sheds light on kleptocracy” (5/21/18)AM Joy
Interview
wondering why officials did not intervene while aware a criminal syndicate was making moves on the executive branch (5/19/18)AM Joy
“Trump put a ‘USA – Going Out of Business Sale’ sign on the White House lawn” (5/19/18) Traverse City Record Eagle “Flyover country offers a grim view of America” (5/18/18) Colin McEnroe Show , Connecticut NPR, “An Hour With Sarah Kendzior”, (5/18/18) American Women’s Party , Q & A with interviewer Soraya Chemaly (5/15/18)Shelf Awareness,
Review of “The View From Flyover Country” (5/11/18)Crooks and Liars
“Sarah Kendzior compares Trump’s crew to slimy barnacles on the Titanic. She’s not wrong.” (5/12/19)The Coil
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“Injustice in Middle America: On Sarah Kendzior’s ‘The View From Flyover Country'” (5/10/18)ArtFuse
“Book Review: ‘The View From Flyover Country’ — Sounding theAlarm” (5/9/18)
KSDK
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“Five on your side”, panel discussion of Eric Greitens (5/6/18) New York Times Book Review,
“The View From Flyover Country” lands on the paperback bestseller list at #8 (5/13/18) I will be back with new articles soon, as well a few big announcements. Stay tuned! Posted in Uncategorized “THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY”: INTERVIEWS AND REVIEWS Posted on April 27, 2018by Sarah Kendzior
What a week! My book “The View From Flyover Country”is now a critically
acclaimed best-seller — again. This collection of essays on the erosion of institutions and social trust in the US was originally written in 2012-2014, self-published as an ebook on Amazon in 2015, became a big hit after the 2016 election, and was rereleased in print with additional essays about the Trump era on April 17, 2018. Apparently it takes four years for my ideas to go from “This is far too pessimistic” to “What an accurate and unflinching portrayal of American reality” — so at this rate, you will have some excellent reading to curl up with in your fallout shelters in 2020! Just kidding! (Sort of.) Anyway, thank you to everyone who bought the book, turned out for the readings, and supported my writing over the last six years. The reason I write about the subjects I do is because a problem that is not documented cannot be solved, so I’m glad my book is being so widely read. Last week I did panels and signings in St. Louis, New York, and Los Angeles, and did a LOT of interviews about authoritarianism, economic decline, geographic inequality, racism, Russia and, of course, Trump. I recommend checking them out, especially the panels I did with other authors researching the same topics. Here is a partial list:INTERVIEWS
Late Night With Seth Meyers,
“Sarah Kendzior on the Systemic Issues That Will Outlast Trump”(4/24/18)
Late Night With Seth Meyers“Sarah
Kendzior and the Problem With Journalists” (4/24/18)Crooks and Liars
“Sarah Kendzior Graces Seth Meyers with Nine Straight Minutes of Brilliance” (4/25/18)Village Voice
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“All the Disquiet on the Midwestern Front” (4/26/18)CSPAN
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Los Angeles Festival of Books, “Author Discussion on Trump’s First Year”, featuring me, David Cay Johnston, and Steve Almond (4/21/18) St. Louis Public Radio,
St. Louis journalist Sarah Kendzior in conversation with Don Marsh(4/17/18)
Morning Joe , MSNBC,interview (4/26/18)
Raw Story
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“Journalist Sarah Kendzior goes on Morning Joe and calls out Joe and Mika for fueling Trump’s rise” (4/26/18)CSPAN
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“Open Calls with Sarah Kendzior” (4/21/18)Brian Lehrer Show
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WYNC, “America is Purple Like a Bruise” (4/24/18)Raw Story
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“Journalist Sarah Kendzior has bad news for Seth Meyers: If I’m on TV, then you know America is in bad shape” (4/25/18)Jim Bohannon Show
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interview (4/19/18)
Make it Plain with Mark Thompson,
SIRIUSXM, interview (4/25/18) Other PPL with Brad Listi , interview, (4/20/18)Housing Works
(4/25/18), conversation between me and Amy SiskindREVIEWS
St Louis Post-Dispatch:
“‘Flyover country’ gets attention with essays by Sarah Kendzior” (4/21/18)New York Post
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“This week’s must-read books” (4/20/18)New York Times
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“New and Noteworthy” (4/29/18)Buffalo News
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“New books put Rust Belt in the national spotlight” (4/22/18) Posted in Uncategorized| 1 Comment
WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY, PART XXVI Posted on April 15, 2018by Sarah Kendzior
This week my book “The View From Flyover Country” gets released in print for the first time. This collection of essays on the collapse of institutions and trust in the US was a critically acclaimed bestseller after it was first published as an ebook in 2015; that led to its reissue (with new material on the Trump era) in a print edition fromMacmillan.
You can preorder it here; it comes out April 17 . And if you live in St Louis, you can get your copy at Left Bank Books when I do a signing and live interview with St Louis Public Radio on April 17 at 7:00. Please come by! In the meantime, here are some of my latest articles and interviews: No, Trump isn’t suddenly interested in Assad’s war crimes(4/14/18)
— The Globe and Mail Scooter Libby’s pardon: In this White House, loyalty trumps the law(4/14/18)
— Fast Company
Donald Trump will do anything to avoid prosecution — and John Boltonwill help
(4/12/18)
— Fast Company
St Louis Magazine
,
“Talking to Sarah Kendzior about ‘The View From Flyover Country’” (4/10/18) Columbia Journalism Review, “From Russia
to Flyover Country, Sarah Kendzior might be the voice we need”(4/8/18)
Raw Story
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“Scholar of fascism explains why Trump’s ‘Desert Stormy’ airstrike is a total sham” (4/14/18)The Rick Smith Show
“Sarah
Kendzior on Trump’s Russia sanctions” (4/7/18)AM Joy
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MSNBC, latest on Manafort and Gates (3/31/18) Posted in Uncategorized WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY, PART XXV Posted on March 26, 2018by Sarah Kendzior
I’ve been busy getting ready for the print release of my book, _The View From Flyover Country_ (which you can preorder here)
and I’ll have info on upcoming book tour dates soon. In the meantime, here are some of my latest articles and interviews: The Stormy Daniels scandal is not about sex — it’s about threats,bribes and silence
(3/25/18)
— Globe and Mail
Will the indictment of Iranian hackers prove the pretext for JohnBolton’s war?
(3/21/18)
— Fast Company
Why former Trump staffers may be walking security threats(2/15/18)
— Fast Company
AM Joy ,
on the Mueller probe and irreparable damage of Trump (3/10/18)Flood magazine
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interview, “Hyper girlish scifi and Trump parallels in ‘A Wrinkle in Time’” (3/9/18)Rick Smith Show ,
“Sarah Kendzior brings the fire over the day’s news” (3/8/18)CBS News
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interview on Trump and the Missouri Senate race (3/7/18)St Louis Magazine
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“In ‘The View From Flyover Country’, Sarah Kendzior looks at national issues through a St Louis lens” (2/23/18)Rick Smith Show
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“Sarah Kendzior On Fire Over the Day’s News” (2/28/18)AM Joy ,
interview about Jared Kushner and corruption (2/24/18)Kirkus Reviews
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Positive review of “The View From Flyover Country” (2/20/18)Rob Burgess Show ,
Hour-long interview on all the bullshit going on, (2/14/18)Barry Martin Show ,
1440 KVON-AM, interview on Trump and authoritarianism (2/13/18) Posted in Uncategorized| 1 Comment
“THE MAFIA WHITE HOUSE”: MY NO-HOLDS-BARRED INTERVIEW ON THE RICKSMITH SHOW
Posted on March 2, 2018by Sarah Kendzior
On February 28, I did an extremely angry, no-holds-barred interview with The Rick Smith Show about the Trump administration and the investigation into Russian interference. You can listen to theinterview here
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The interview went viral, and I received many requests for a transcript. A Twitter follower, @myhilarious, kindly did a transcription and sent it to me. It is published below: RICK SMITH: Ah yes, the walls appear to be tumbling down around Trump and all of this stuff with Mueller, the investigation, Hope Hicks out the door, and now today you have Paul Manafort back in court, pleading not guilty to money-laundering, conspiracy and fraud charges, his trial will begin on September the 17th, which should be, you know, “popcorn moments”. Maybe put it on Pay-Per-View, we could solve some of our debt problems that way. Anyway, we’re here to talk about the day’s events! Our good friend Sarah Kendzior, writer and journalist doing some fantastic work on this. Sarah, thanks for taking the time for us. SARAH KENDZIOR: Thanks for having me. RS: So let’s start with Hope Hicks — surprised by the resignation? SK: No, not really. Not after the inquiry yesterday, not after her ties to Kushner and Ivanka, rumors about people she’s had relationships with in the White House — but mostly because she is linked to what appears to be an international criminal conspiracy. I’m not surprised that she got out of there, and I think as the focus becomes more and more on Kushner – it’s important to point out she is someone who’s been in Ivanka and Jared’s circle _way_ before she joined the campaign; this is like a friend of about a decade. Once he got in trouble, Hicks is going be implicated, and so I think she just wanted to extract herself from the situation before things got even worse. RS: But she only told ‘little white lies’ Sarah! There were justlittle white ones!
SK: _ It’s always ‘white’ lies, it’s always ‘white’ with this particular group – um, yeah I think her departure, obviously it matters, but I think people may be reading too much into it. We’ve had many departures in this administration, I think a record number—last time I checked it was something like a 34% turnover rate, and I guess now it’s higher. And each time someone leaves, everyone says ‘Oh, this is it, this is the end’, especially when it was somebody with a lot of impact, like Bannon. And then life goes on. People get indicted, the charges get dropped, people flagrantly break the law, they retain power. We’ve known about the things that are coming out with Kushner this week, I and others reported on them a year ago. People have been talking about them on TV for a year. There have been books about Trump and Russia that came out in 2016. None of these things are revelations. My question remains, since so much of this information that we built our articles on was in the public domain, is why the _hell_ didn’t anyone do anything? When Manafort took over Trump’s campaign, when Trump had this obvious record of terrible financial conflicts of interest, ties with the mafia, bankruptcies. The way that this campaign played out, the more Mueller clamps down now, the more angry I am that nothing happened before. Because we were told over and over that we were crazy, that we were paranoid, and there was this sense of ‘If I really am right about this, if my instincts are correct, that I’ve gotta be wrong because clearly somebody would do something about this.’ It’s almost like it’s so obvious it can’t be true. But we were right. And now they have entrenched themselves in the White House. There is classified information that is accessible to a large number of people who should have never had it in the first place. Those secrets can be sold on the market. We have climate change regulations that can’t be undone, we have damage that can’t be undone. We have courts packed with conservatives. We have corruption on a scale that we never could have imagined. It’s basically a Mafia White House. So goodluck fixing that!
And if people had freaking been on the ball, back in not even 2016 or 2015 but, like, in 2002, and the entire time Manafort and Trump were getting into all this shit — I mean, Jesus Christ, _where the hell were people_? Why did nobody speak up in a forthright and honest way? And why were those of us who spoke up castigated repeatedly for a year? I know I sound pissed, but it’s because I am. It is so frustrating. It is not out of personal pride or anything like that. It’s because I have to raise my children in this country. I have to see people get deported in this country. I have to see a permanent breakdown of an already flailing society because people simply would not tell the truth. RS:Yeah I mean (stuttering) I’m actually just going, ‘Applause! Yes!’ Uh, where do I go– SK: Sorry I just (_laughing_)…RS: …from there?
SK: (_laughing_) I was a little riled up… RS: We all should be! SK: …because I’m mad. I’m mad. RS: And you’re absolutely right, this is all stuff that, had we a media in this country that bothered to do their job and not just rake in the cash from the ratings that they were getting, had they actually vetted this stuff—as you point out—that we _all knew_ in 2015 and 2016, we might not be in this mess, we might not have a Supreme Court that’s going to screw workers over like we’re going to see. We may not have _all of this horrible stuff_ that’s happening actuallyhappen.
SK: Yeah and it’s not just the media. It’s also the government, the intelligence community. This is a non-partisan thing: I blame everybody. I blame the GOP. I do blame the Obama administration for just having way too much faith that Hillary would win, for not being on the ball with this. But I’m just kind of flabbergasted that with all of this in the public domain, that they didn’t make their move, that they didn’t speak up, that they underestimated the threat, that they took a risk like that. It’s possible that there were some sort of external constraints that we don’t know about that caused them not to act, but it’s obvious that this plan was many years in the making. And it’s just, it’s very frustrating. And I don’t want to sound like Trump. You know, Trump’s little line nowadays is ‘Oh, you know, it was _Obama_ who was President when all this was happening, so it’s _his_ fault.’ And I’m like, ‘Dude, _you’re the criminal_. We’re complaining that he didn’t catch you _fast enough_.’ There is obviously a scale of problematic behavior here, and Trump is on the high end and Obama is on the low end. But nonetheless, the actions of that administration and previous ones, the Bush administration too, should be examined. It’s very frustrating. A lot of people have let our country down. RS: No absolutely, on all sides of the aisle and you’re right. It’s a non-partisan issue. If you truly believe in this experiment of self-rule, if you truly believe in this constitutionally limited republic, then standing up now and demanding this investigation to go forward is a must! But I look at today, you’ve got Trump going off on Jeff Sessions again. And Jeffy having dinner with (Rod) Rosenstein and the other guy. Does Jeffy get fired? Do we see a bloodbath there? Lots of questions. SK: Well, the picture is interesting. People have been floating this ‘Jeff Sessions is gonna get fired’ rumor for a full year. And I’ve never believed it because Jeff Sessions is of course implicated in this. He was Trump’s foreign policy advisor on the campaign, he was somebody who cultivated a lot of these Russian ties. He never actually recused himself from the investigation and then he went on to commit perjury multiple times when testifying about it. This is actually a really great thing for Trump. Sessions has been a foot-soldier. He’s a loyalist. He’s gonna do what Trump wants and he also has a lot at stake himself because he’s implicated. So I’ve been skeptical that he really is the object of Trump’s wrath. I feel like Trump is just freaking out and enjoys taking it out on Sessions because he knows that Sessions is a loyalist. You blow up at the people who you know will take it. They’ll take that humiliation, and Trump gets off on humiliating people, and he likes to humiliate Sessions. But the picture with Rosenstein, that’s interesting. That might really get under skin, because I think with Rosenstein, I think he does want to fire him. Because the person he wants to fire the most is Mueller, and firing Rosenstein is the pathway to doing that. That’s something that I think he may go for. If that happens, I don’t know where we’ll go from there. The thing that’s been frustrating is that so much of this took place blatantly, it’s in the public domain. We know about an enormous number of crimes that have been committed. Trump _confesses_ to them multiple times—he’s confessed to obstruction of justice—and _nothing_ is done. The fact that they’re still there is extremelydamning.
And so while everyone is like ‘Oh, if he fires Muller it’ll be this big moment, people will rise up’ or ‘The GOP won’t take it anymore’, I’m like, which GOP are you talking about?! The ones who have been sitting on their asses while we get hijacked by extremists both in our country _and_ from Russia? The ones who did nothing when Trump didn’t enact sanctions that were voted on 98-to-2 in the Senate? They’re not doing jack shit! So I’m kinda skeptical that suddenly they’re going to grow a pair and fight for our country. I don’t know, we’ll see. RS: No, I’m with you. Look, I’m seeing all of this stuff coming out, these reports about what Mueller’s looking into next: Mueller’s looking into the money from Russia, Mueller’s looking into…if Trump knew about the emails that were hacked before the Democratic convention. All of these things that, you go ‘Of course he knew!’ And why are you just looking into this NOW? SK: I’m praying to God that he’s not just looking at it now. I’m hoping that this is just poor reporting on the part of CNN and other outlets, poor framing of the material, cuz one would hope that Mueller is of course investigating this. It would be dereliction of duty if he’s not. This is _the most obvious shit_. This is the stuff that we all _knew_, the stuff that I’ve written articles about, the stuff that you and I have done interviews and had conversations about for a full year. So yeah, I would hope they’relooking at that.
I mean, I assume of course that they have a lot of other information that we don’t know, and that’s been proven when they bring these surprise indictments. They brought out George Papadopoulos, or the thirteen Russian internet trolls…there’s an indictment out for them. People didn’t see that coming. There are all these people on Twitter that claim to have inside info, but they’re just trying to sell you stuff, they’re just trying to make money off of your fear. Mueller has a pretty leak-free investigation. As so I think when they’re kind of breathlessly reporting like ‘Mueller is investigating obvious shit that we’ve all been talking about’, I’m like ‘Well, _good_, because if he wasn’t that would be really terrible.’ But it doesn’t particularly make me think this is coming to a conclusion, it doesn’t give me a lot of hope. I’m obviously glad he’s doing it — that’s his job, –but there are thing that are going on that I’m also concernedabout.
One of those is the treatment of Manafort and Gates, who have been given the most lax treatment for two people who’ve committed conspiracy against the United States. We know that Gates is complying, that he’s helping with the investigation, we’re guessing in good faith that he gave up a lot of information in order to get those charges dropped. But, you know, they’re letting him travel around for spring break, and they just let Manafort out to attend a funeral. Back in December, they let Manafort off of house arrest entirely, including with no GPS tracking. This is a guy who has _three passports_ and is hooked up with like every mobster in the world—and they just let him out, like he’s not going to immediately do something awful, and _of course he did_, and then they had to put him _back_ on house arrest. And I look at all this like, ‘This is just extreme naivete or incompetence,’ and either one of those makes me very uncomfortable. Maybe there’s some long game that I’m just not seeing, but you don’t let a guy like Manafort out. Not just because he deserves to be punished, but because he’s going to_ hurt people_. He’s full of compromising information. He’s full of murderous intent. This is a guy with blood on his hands. So why are they being so cavalier? Why would he give these guys rights? And I have to say this—I live in St Louis, where people go to jail over a parking ticket and stay there for months because they can’t pay it. That part of me is very angry about it as well. RS: Well I mean this is about power and money, at the end of it, and there’s also a part of me that goes, to both Manafort _and_ Gates: “Don’t walk near any open windows.” SK: Oh absolutely! That’s one of the things that’s really weird, is that they’re both assassination targets. They’re both flight risks. I could easily see especially Manafort just hitting the road or honestly probably getting into a boat and cruising on out to uncharted waters. But both of them are potential assassination targets, especially Gates, because he’s said to be cooperating. And if I were, not just Russia—everyone’s like ‘Russia’s going to go and kill him’—it could be Trump’s goon squad, it could be people in the United States who want this shut down. Gates is in a very vulnerable position. And they go and announce the exact week of when he’s going to be out and about and the city that he’s going to—he’s going to Boston—and I’m like ‘Why? Why would you tell _anyone_ that?’ It’s one thing if he had some, I don’t know, special thing he had to do and for whatever godforsaken reason they’re going to allow him to do it, but why do you announce that to the world? You’re basically almost putting a hit on him. I can’t stand this guy, but I don’t want him to die, in part because he’s one of the most useful witnesses we have. Can you imagine if he gets killed? The kind of conspiracy theories that are going to sprout up in our environment, what Trump, what all his people would do — it would just be a disaster. So I hope they’ve got their eye on the ball here, because if they don’t, we’re in a lot oftrouble.
RS: I hope you’re right—but one of the things, as I keep looking at the news, especially surrounding Kushner: here’s a guy who now evidently has almost no security clearance, but he was ‘top secret’ clearance, and we have no idea what he did with classified information. And I pose this to some of my conservative acquaintances—they were just losing their mind over Hillary Clinton and the damn emails—and I go ‘Well what about this administration, with all of these people having access to classified information that haven’t gone through the background checks, that _can’t_ pass abackground check.
SK: (_knowingly_) Mmm-hmm. Yeah. I just wrote an article about this for _Fast Company_ and it came out two weeks ago—before all this information about Kushner in particular came out. I wrote it about Rob Porter when he left because he didn’t have the clearance, and about the problem in general. Because what you have is a bunch of former Trump employees who are just roaming free, loaded with classified information that they shouldn’t have had access to to begin with. They don’t have loyalty to country, they need to make money, and there is a rich marketplace out there for selling state secrets. And I don’t know why they wouldn’t do it. These are _exactly_ the kind of people who would do it, because they’re the kind of people who are willing to work for Donald Trump while aware that he’s compromised by the Kremlin. So we’re in a very dangerous situation, because even if people leave the White House, that kind of information and that kind of jeopardization of national security is going to have effects for years, if not decades. And with Kushner – I wouldn’t be surprised if we find out he’s _already_ been selling this information. He asked for more classified information, like high-level information, than anyone else in the White House, and he doesn’t have an honest-to-god job. He has this sort of bullshit task of ‘fixing the Middle East’. But what that really means is that his family has investments in Israel, he’s been making all sorts of weird deals with Saudi Arabia, with China, with Russia, he’s been setting up back channels, _he_ has a private email server, which, as you mentioned, was a big thing for Hilary Clinton but apparently not a problem for Jared. This is a guy who is acting as if he’s selling state secrets for profit. And I think in the end we may find out that that is what he’s been doing in order to – Jared also has a massive amount of debt, that’s important to point out if you’re looking for motive, and that debt is due _right now_. So he’s in a lot of trouble in anumber of aspects.
And again, I’m just kind of stymied that people didn’t see this coming, because it’s very obvious that Trump was going to insert his family into the administration. That’s what every autocratic leader does, that’s what every kleptocratic leader does, and it was obvious that Trump was a leader in that vein. I wrote an article that’s now two years old saying ‘If Trump gets elected, he’s going to govern like a Central Asian autocrat’. You install your family members because that makes it easier to commit crimes, it makes it easier to hide the money. And that’s what he’s been doing. And I’m like ‘How the hell did people not see this?! How the hell did people just allow this?’ And now they’re in a position where Trump calls the shots, Trump’s the one who’s going to allegedly to get rid of Kushner’s clearance, allegedly he doesn’t have it, but Kushner can just go and ask Trump. And I’m thinking, ‘If Trump gives out state secrets to the Russians in the Oval Office, he’s going to tell Jared whatever the hell Jared wants to know while they’re eating dinner.’ There’s no filter there. There’s no sense of propriety or protocol. So, yeah, we’re in a lot of trouble. People’s jubilation over this — I don’t get it. I just see it as, we have a fairly intractable problem, and I’m curious to see, if it gets solved, how exactly it’s going to get solved. RS: Let me as you as kind of a last line of questioning, then, because there had been talk almost immediately that the intelligence community _wasn’t_ going to give Trump the real information. Do you think he’s getting the _real_ classified stuff? Or are they giving him cartoon drawings of it? SK: I think that’s a nice fantasy, and if that turns out to be true, then great. But we already have proof that it’s not. Because Trump gave compromising material to the Russians last May in the Oval Office that ended up jeopardizing Israeli security. It caused an international crisis. And that was just one incident that we knowabout.
I think there’s been so much false expectation of checks and balances, of pivoting to be presidential, and these are bureaucrats that he’s been working with. Originally, he started out with a staff of a lot of life-long bureaucrats who had previously worked for competent administrations, and who had a baseline level of trust: when you give classified information to the president, that’s your job, you just have to do it, whether you like the president or not. You have to trust that the president is loyal to your own country. That used to be not such a leap of faith. And so I do think that a lot of that classified information got passed on. And now a lot of staffers have left—something like 60% of the top-ranking officials at the State Department are gone for example—and I think they’re gone in part because they know their work is being used for nefarious purposes and they don’t want to be a part of that anymore. I know that’s why certain members of the ethics committee resigned — they don’t want to have their hands dirty. They know this is wrong and they’re not going to help him. But that means you’re left with people who _will_. And so I think it’s very likely that he is getting high-level classifiedinformation.
RS: Yeah but here’s the thing: he’s just an amateur so we have to cut him a little slack. SK: Oh my God, I’m going to_ (laughing), _I swear to God I want to kill everybody who says that _(off-mic laughing)_, ‘This little political neophyte, he’s an amateur’, okay, he hasn’t been the president before, but he’s been immersed in organized crime, in scams, in PR, in lying, in all of this stuff for forty years! And more to the point, he has a team of backers who are far more savvy than he is, and he has learned to step back. Everyone thinks Trump needs to be the only guy, he needs to be in the spotlight all the time. And while that’s true on a kind of cult of personality level, Trump has _always_ surrounded himself with extremely ruthless, very savvy people, usually lawyers, people like Roy Cohn or Michael Cohen, who are just brutal. They understand the system, they understand howto manipulate it.
This is also true of his circle of oligarchs, though in that case Trump has debt, and so I think he doesn’t quite hold the strings in _that_ relationship. That’s why he’s so relentlessly deferential to Putin, to the Kremlin, to this circle of oligarchs. So that changes things a little bit, but yeah, Trump knows what he’s doing. I wouldn’t go so far as to say he knows what he’s doing _is wrong_, because I don’t think he has a conception of right or wrong, but I think he knows what he’s doing is _illegal_, and that’s why he’s trying to manipulate the justice system in any way that he can—no matter what kind of laws he’s re-writing, no matter what kind of illicit schemes he’s doing—in order to get out of this mess and in order to consolidate power. That’s unfortunatelywhere we are.
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WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY, PART XXIV Posted on February 1, 2018by Sarah Kendzior
Here are my latest articles and interviews: After a year of Trump, women expect less from men — but demand more(1/22/18)
— Globe and Mail
Trump’s first State of the Union was classic reality TV. So who’s really running the show?(1/31/18)
— NBC News
Could false alerts and fake news start a nuclear war?(2/1/18)
— Fast Company
CBS News
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“What are the issues affecting Missouri voters?” (1/30/18)AM Joy ,
interview on obstruction of justice (1/27/18)Trouw
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“‘Trump ondermijnt dagelijks onze rechten en vrijheden/Trump undermines our rights and liberties daily’” (1/24/18)Rick Smith
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“Sarah Kendzior on ‘Release the Memo’” (1/23/18)Forbes
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“The real endgame for the president’s focus on fake news is the Mueller probe” (1/22/18)Raw Story
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“AM Joy panel ridicules ‘scumbag’ Trump for having to employ a ‘lawyer goon squad to avoid being blackmailed’” (1/20/18)MSNBC
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“Stormy Daniels and Trump: Why allegations matter” (1/20/18)Who What Why
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“Voter suppression may be the most important issue of 2018”(1/17/18)
Posted in Uncategorized WELCOME TO THE AUTHORITARIAN KLEPTOCRACY, PART XXIII Posted on January 14, 2018by Sarah Kendzior
Here are my articles and interviews from the past week: Trump’s racism is more than rhetoric — it forms policies and ruinslives
(1/13/18)
— Globe and Mail
The other scary foreign hacking threat Trump is ignoring(1/11/18)
— Fast Company
What’s next for Steve Bannon? Nothing good for America(1/11/18)
— NBC News
Trump is no genius, but he’s smart at playing dumb(1/7/18)
— Globe and Mail
Al Jazeera
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Listening Post, “Fire and Fury: Access, integrity and mainstreammedia” (1/14/18)
AM Joy , MSNBC,
interview on Mueller probe, (1/13/18)Associated Press
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“Dozens more ‘resistance’ books scheduled for 2018” <– brief interview with me and mention of my book “The View From FlyoverCountry” (1/9/18)
570 News , interview about Trump and “Fire and Fury” (1/9/18)Rick Smith Show
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“Sarah Kendzior on ‘Fire and Fury'” (1/8/18) Background Briefing with Ian Masters , interview on whether Lindsey Graham and other Republicans are being blackmailed or threatened(1/7/18)
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