Michael Gould-Wartofsky

@mgouldwartofsky

Michael Gould-Wartofsky is an award-winning writer, scholar, educator, and ethnographer whose work focuses on state-society relations and contemporary social movements, right and left, in the United States and internationally. Gould-Wartofsky is the author of The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement (Oxford University Press, 2015) and American Inquisitions: A Social History of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in America (forthcoming, 2025).

A police armored vehicle patrols an intersection on August 24, 2020 in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Police Are Spreading Authoritarianism Under the Guise of Counterterrorism Police Are Spreading Authoritarianism Under the Guise of Counterterrorism

Joe Biden’s Department of Justice has doubled down on an inquisitorial strategy of counterinsurgency in the name of counterterrorism.  

Jul 12, 2023 / Michael Gould-Wartofsky

Protesters blocking traffic

Predatory Policing Has Become a National Crisis Predatory Policing Has Become a National Crisis

Welcome to America’s emerging predator state.

Feb 28, 2023 / Michael Gould-Wartofsky

Georgia SWAT team dressed in fatigues

Deadly Violence Against Protesters Is the New Normal Deadly Violence Against Protesters Is the New Normal

Our over-militarized police force makes de-escalation unthinkable and violence inevitable—and, in the case of the "Cop City" shooting, lethal.

Feb 3, 2023 / Michael Gould-Wartofsky

5 Tools the Police Are Using in Their War Against Activists

5 Tools the Police Are Using in Their War Against Activists 5 Tools the Police Are Using in Their War Against Activists

From Ferguson to Baltimore, the message is clear: protest at your peril.

May 5, 2015 / Michael Gould-Wartofsky

Seven Steps to a Homeland Security Campus Seven Steps to a Homeland Security Campus

Campus spies. Pepper spray. SWAT teams. Welcome to Repress U, class of 2012.

Mar 22, 2012 / Michael Gould-Wartofsky

Guatemala’s Dirty War Guatemala’s Dirty War

Millions of recently declassified police documents detail a thirty-six-year reign of state terror.

May 15, 2009 / Feature / Michael Gould-Wartofsky and Kelly Lee

Will Youth Activists Recreate ’68 At This Year’s Conventions? Will Youth Activists Recreate ’68 At This Year’s Conventions?

Thousands of young activists are poised to protest at the Democratic and Republican conventions. In the age of Obama, is street protest still relevant?

Aug 19, 2008 / Feature / Michael Gould-Wartofsky

Repress U Repress U

Surveillance 101: Big Brother goes to college.

Jan 10, 2008 / Feature / Michael Gould-Wartofsky

Farmworkers and Students Take On Burger King Farmworkers and Students Take On Burger King

The fast-food giant's insistence on paying poverty wages to tomato pickers could backfire, as student activists' campaign for fair food cuts into their business.

Dec 14, 2007 / Feature / Michael Gould-Wartofsky

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