For Hannah Arendt, 20th-century totalitarianism distinguished itself by effacing the boundaries between public and private. Today, fascism in a postmodern key strives to efface different boundaries: between reality and non-reality, human and non-human, truth and untruth.
Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat, et al offer what they see as the greatest or most pressing challenge to democratic governance in 2026.
