Nikhil Pal Singh

Nikhil Pal Singh, NYU professor of social and cultural analysis and history, offers a historical and political reading of U.S. militarism and nativist policy. He discusses the idea of a 'homeland empire.' He traces links between domestic policing, mass deportations, expansionist aims in North America, and close ties with Israeli strategy.

Nikhil Pal Singh, historian and NYU professor who directs a prison education program, explores how the Trump regime fuses foreign and domestic policy into a unified model of coercion. He examines spectacle, racial and nativist imagery, mass deportation plans, expanded detention and paramilitary policing, and how settler fantasies shape aggression abroad and at home.

Nikhil Pal Singh, historian of race, empire, and US political thought, discusses his 'Homeland Empire' analysis and Trump 2.0. He explains expanding zones of rightlessness and links them to the war on terror and carceral institutions. The conversation surveys mass deportation, continental expansionist rhetoric, frontier nostalgia, and the consolidation of executive power.

Nikhil Pal Singh, NYU professor and author specializing in state power and race. He discusses how homeland empire reshapes security and brings conflict home. He reflects on spontaneous local resistance in places like Minneapolis. He talks about risks and strategies for protesting under repression and the need for broader cross-class coalitions.

Nikhil Pal Singh, historian of race and U.S. political history and NYU professor, outlines the idea of a 'homeland empire' where foreign and domestic power blur. He discusses how policing adopts wartime tactics, the shift from border walls to interior enforcement, continuities and novelties in recent administrations, and why the current project struggles to build lasting hegemony.