Behind the Book: The Villainization of America
My grandfather would talk about what happened to him. The problem was that nobody wanted to listen, because the story made people uncomfortable, and people get tired of being uncomfortable.
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Behind the BookBehind the Book: Everybody’s Prejudiced
A book that asks readers to examine their own prejudices has to go first. So the introduction is mine: what my parents taught me, what I believed for thirty years without testing it, and the club I was recruited into…
Critical ThinkingYuri Bezmenov and the Four Stages of Subversion
In 1984 a former Soviet propagandist described four stages for taking a country apart: demoralize a generation, destabilize its institutions, manufacture a crisis, normalize what follows. He said the first stage was already finished in America.