This article contains MAJOR SPOILERS for Suzanne Collins’s new book, Sunrise on the Reaping. Sunrise on the Reaping takes us back 24 years before the events of the first Hunger Games book, to Haymitch Abernathy’s games. I ripped through it…
One week into the new administration, the U.S. Department of Transportation released a memo that the secretary of transportation has signed the “Woke Rescission.” This directs the agency to “identify and eliminate all Biden-era programs, policies, activities, rules, and orders that promote…
Freedom and control. These two buzzwords have a lot of sway in the American imagination. Freedom might be the most powerful single word in America. We’ve built an entire national identity around it. These terms have enter the rhetorical fight for creating…
Once this therapy concept clicked, it gave me a new lens to understand propaganda and political talking points. It took me a bit to grasp it, but once I did, I started seeing it everywhere. It’s called “negative projection,” and…
Stop calling injuries and deaths caused by cars “car accidents.” Let’s start calling it what it is: car violence. As a student of persuasion and propaganda, I often think about how our word choice shapes our perceptions and opinions. Our…
Like much of Orwell’s writing, Homage to Catalonia demonstrates timeless and transferable lessons; it’s not just a book about the Spanish Civil War. Homage shows us, in any era, how real-world propaganda can have serious political consequences. In particular, how…
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