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Arguing with Idiots took the No. 1 spot on The New York Times's Non-fiction Best Seller list within the first week of release. [7]A review by Christopher Michel in the Brooklyn Rail allows that the book is "readable and fun (sort of)" with "easily findable facts and opinions", but asserts that "if the book's goal is to convince liberals of the validity of the 'truth' according to Beck, it is a ...
Sack served as a contributing author to the New York Times bestseller Arguing With Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government (Threshold, 2009) [5] as well as Cowards: What Politicians, Radicals, and the Media Refuse to Say (Threshold, 2009). [6] He has written humor for Radar, The Independent, CRACKED, Glamour and McSweeney's Internet ...
Crowd manipulation. Crowd manipulation is the intentional or unwitting use of techniques based on the principles of crowd psychology to engage, control, or influence the desires of a crowd in order to direct its behavior toward a specific action. [1] This practice is common to religion, politics and business and can facilitate the approval or ...
Ronald Reagan popularized the idea of small government, which ended up being great for the top one percent of America, but has recently been shown to have some problems. This idea has influenced ...
Criticism of democracy, or debate on democracy and the different aspects of how to implement democracy best have been widely discussed. There are both internal critics (those who call upon the constitutional regime to be true to its own highest principles) and external ones who reject the values promoted by constitutional democracy. [ 1 ]
While Kamala Harris rocked the DNC with an unexpected appearance and short speech to the rapturous crowd, Donald Trump continued to attack his new opponent, sometimes in odd ways. He is ignoring ...
Brandolini's law, also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle, is an internet adage coined in 2013 by Alberto Brandolini, an Italian programmer, that emphasizes the effort of debunking misinformation, in comparison to the relative ease of creating it in the first place. The law states:
Kakistocracy. A kakistocracy (/ kækɪˈstɒkrəsi /, / kækɪsˈtɒ -/) is a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens. [1]: 54 [2][3] The word was coined as early as the seventeenth century. [4] Peter Bowler has noted in his book that there is no word for the government run by the best citizens, [a] and that ...