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The Trump World by Lawson Akhigbe

There is a particular cruelty in a medical report. Unlike a political speech, a budget forecast, or an election manifesto all genres of creative literature to which democratic publics have made a resigned peace a medical report carries with it the residual authority of science. When a doctor speaks, we are conditioned, in some prelinguistic way, to believe them. Which is precisely why what has happened to American presidential medicine under Donald Trump is so arresting. The clinic has been converted into a theatre, the stethoscope swapped for a megaphone, and the diagnosis subordinated entirely to the demands of the narrative.

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Schrödinger’s Immigrant: The Convenient Villain for Every Failure by Lawson Akhigbe

The immigrant today exists simultaneously as two incompatible creatures. On one hand, he is portrayed as a lazy welfare dependent draining public resources, crowding hospitals, filling council housing lists and surviving on benefits paid by hardworking natives. On the other hand, that same immigrant is somehow an unstoppable economic superhuman taking all the jobs, dominating industries, suppressing wages and outcompeting local workers in both skilled and unskilled sectors.

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The Silence of Friday: How J.M. Coetzee Flipped the Script on Robinson Crusoe

In 1986, South African Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee looked at Crusoe’s island and saw something entirely different: the blueprint for colonial trauma.

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Xenophobia as an Economy: How Violence Becomes a Political and Financial Instrument in South Africa by Lawson Akhigbe

The tragedy is not just that the poor are fighting each other. It is that, in doing so, they are unwitting participants in a system that depends on exactly that outcome.

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America at 250: The Man Who Thought He Was the Book

In Trump's universe, American history is divided into two eras: Before Trump and The Golden Age of Trump. George Washington crossed the Delaware so Trump could cross social media. Abraham Lincoln preserved the Union so Trump could preserve his television ratings. The moon landing was merely a rehearsal for the launch of Truth Social.

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