Alberto Toscano's 'Il tempo dei mostri' Analyzes Trump and American Hegemony

Alberto Toscano, a philosopher and social critic, has published a book titled 'Il tempo dei mostri. Trump e la crisi dell’egemonia americana' (Laterza, 2026), which examines the rise of new 'monsters'—a small elite wielding unprecedented social power. The book updates and revises essays originally published in the American magazine In These Times, where Toscano is an editorialist. The work addresses the question of how to respond to these 21st-century sovereigns and how to measure the social and geopolitical effects of a power that no longer originates in market mechanisms or state bureaucracy but in the arbitrary decisions of a tiny group of men who have amassed stratospheric shares of social power. Toscano's analysis focuses on the figure of Donald Trump and the crisis of American hegemony, framing these 'monsters' as embodying and producing an antipolitical or impolitical body. The book is a detailed and analytical work of political criticism, offering a critical perspective on contemporary power structures. The publication is set for 2026 by Laterza, an Italian publisher. The review of the book was published on doppiozero.com, an Italian cultural magazine, on June 8, 2026, by Lelio Demichelis and Anita Romanello.