Archive - America Under Occupation

America Isn’t Facing a Democratic Collapse. We’re Living in Its Aftermath.

America’s political panic isn’t about an impending breakdown. It’s a way to avoid confronting the one we’ve already suffered – and what it means for…

Mar 9 • Eric Reinhart

August 2025

The Hippocratic Underground

When the law makes providing ethical care impossible, care workers must go underground – but our training teaches us to instead simply obey.

Aug 2, 2025 • Eric Reinhart

On Docile Doctors, Medical Fascism, and Ethical Disobedience

A new article in Social Science & Medicine on why doctors so often collaborate with injustice and comply with authoritarian demands.

Aug 1, 2025 • Eric Reinhart

June 2025

A War on the Whole of Humanity

Israel’s attacks on health workers reflect a strategy of total war––one openly supported by Trump and Netanyahu, and abetted by America’s medical…

Jun 5, 2025 • Eric Reinhart

April 2025

Resistance Is Not Enough. We Must Attack Fascism at Its Roots

We can neither prevent nor beat fascism by just simply resisting its force. We must change the material and affective conditions that sustain its…

Apr 24, 2025 • Eric Reinhart

March 2025

Genocide Abroad, Eugenics at Home

Regarding NEJM's complicity with genocide and RFK Jr's eugenicist plans for US mental health policy.

Mar 29, 2025 • Eric Reinhart

Politicizing Public Health – More, Please

On the anti-political ideology of US medicine and the effects it has had on public health that have now delivered us to Trump, RFK Jr, Bhattacharya…

Mar 11, 2025 • Eric Reinhart

Public Science, Private Profits, and the NIH's Collapse

Public science too often serves private profits, making it vulnerable to attacks like Trump’s.

Mar 7, 2025 • Eric Reinhart

The Postmodern War Machine—Trump, Putin, and “Dyspolitics"

After Trump's meeting with Zelenskyy, revisiting a theory of politics that we first described through Putin but that Trump now illustrates even better.

Mar 2, 2025 • Eric Reinhart

February 2025

RFK Jr.’s Hijacking of "Anti-Psychiatry"

The new HHS secretary is weaponizing legitimate anger at the failures of current psychiatric care to gut public services, abandon poor and disabled…

Feb 27, 2025 • Eric Reinhart

Public Health and American Fascism, or How We Got RFK Jr.

Health has always been political, including long before Trump. Denying this is what’s killing us. Here’s how we got here – and how we can get out.

Feb 13, 2025 • Eric Reinhart

America Under Occupation

The essays on politics and power, resistance and subversion, psychoanalysis, and public health that I can't persuade others to publish.

Feb 1, 2025 • Eric Reinhart