Mattias Desmet

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Mattias Desmet, Brownstone Senior Fellow, is a professor of psychology at Ghent University and author of The Psychology of Totalitarianism. He articulated the theory of mass formation during the COVID-19 pandemic.


Anchors in a Sea of Chaos

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In a totalitarian system, no one is safe. The only anchor will be precisely what our rationalist Enlightenment society pushed to the background: loyalty to ethical... Read more.

My Book Is Being Burned

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On January 25, 2023, Ghent University banned the use of my book The Psychology of Totalitarianism in the course “Critique of Society and Culture”. That happened... Read more.