The same conditions of instability that produced the post-war system of repression are again at work. Banks' reserve requirements are rising in the wake of the financial crisis.

Freud provided many examples of memory repression from clinical cases, and documented its effects in day-to-day behaviour 2.

While the struggle between governments and rebel elites has been the focus of many analyses, little focus has been placed on the individual peasant. Using consumer choice theory, we model the rational ...

For example, agents of the Thai government killed dozens of protesters after the Red Shirt uprising, which was coordinated largely via Twitter. There are similar examples from Iran and Belarus.

That was an explosive example of “transnational repression” — a national security threat that Washington does too little to combat.

The liquidation of Memorial, which holds the world’s largest archive on Stalinist repression and the Gulag, is only one of the more egregious examples of Putin’s revisionism.