Critical ThinkingFebruary 10, 2026
TikTok is not just dancing teens and recipe hacks; it is a weaponizable influence engine that can radicalize, mobilize, and activate people en masse without their noticing, because it never has to hack your phone, only your feed. The ownership…
Critical ThinkingFebruary 10, 2026
Across this series we walked through the echo chambers of social media, news, AI, academia, religion, publishing, geography, family, forums, influencers, and a weaponized TikTok. What started abstract turned out to be measurable, personal, and inescapable, mind control by consensus,…
Critical ThinkingFebruary 9, 2026
Political correctness is a moving target, and for anyone writing a book it shapes what you can say and how you say it. Here are seven honest insights into where it helps, where it constrains, and how writers and ghostwriters…
Critical ThinkingFebruary 9, 2026
When intelligent people make terrible arguments, logical fallacies are usually the culprit. They are wrecking our capacity for productive conversation, and social media turned it into a spectator sport. Here are the ten I see most often, with the fixes.
Critical ThinkingFebruary 9, 2026
On trigger warnings, both camps are half right and neither is listening, protection on one side, censorship on the other. The real question is quieter: should a book tell you what is inside before you open it? Having ghostwritten memoirs…
Critical ThinkingFebruary 9, 2026
Both sides of the woke-writing fight miss the point: one insists progressive themes wreck stories, the other insists on them, and neither is talking about craft. Themes do not ruin a book. Weak writing does. Here is how to fold…
Critical ThinkingFebruary 9, 2026
Nonfiction should help us see the world more clearly, but too often it just flatters the worldview readers walked in with, because the likes and shares flow to whatever confirms the audience, not whatever challenges it. The louder the echo,…
Artificial IntelligenceFebruary 9, 2026
AI does not think. It predicts, ChatGPT finishing your sentence, YouTube queuing the next video, all of it guessing from what you already liked. The better it learns you, the more it serves you back to yourself, and an AI…
Critical ThinkingFebruary 9, 2026
Faith grounds people, comforts them, sparks real compassion. It can also become a fortress, and not only in the sit-in-a-pew sense, churches, YouTube prophets, TikTok mystics, and Facebook prayer groups all wall off questioning. When belief hardens into identity and…
Critical ThinkingFebruary 9, 2026
Your workplace is one of the most sophisticated, well-funded echo chambers on earth, and nobody notices, because everyone inside is busy hitting targets and not annoying Karen from HR. Companies preach innovation and diversity of thought while running on glorified…
Critical ThinkingFebruary 9, 2026
Education should stretch your thinking and confront you with ideas that challenge you, and sometimes it does. Sometimes it just trains you to say the right things, quote the right sources, and nod on cue, obedience with a diploma. Here…
Critical ThinkingFebruary 9, 2026
This is about reasoning, not partisanship. A widely shared op-ed by a Democratic strategist makes for a clean case study, confident, persuasive on the surface, and built on a stack of logical fallacies and cognitive bias. Picking it apart teaches…
Professional ghostwriting for executives, founders, coaches, and authors who want to get the book done right. 113+ books authored. 54+ ghostwritten for clients.
Ready to discuss your book?
BOOK YOUR PRIVATE CONSULTATIONNo pitch. No pressure.
© 2026 Richard Lowe. The Writing King. All rights reserved.
Four short, practical guides on writing, publishing, and selling your book, plus the occasional note when there's something worth your time. No fluff, no daily inbox clutter. Drop your email and they're yours.
We use MailerLite to manage our list and send these emails. Your address is used only to send you what you signed up for. We will not sell it, share it, or use it for anything else, and you can unsubscribe anytime.
