Reddit reviews How Propaganda Works

I know you're not actually interested, but for anyone in the audience who wants to learn about the sociological background, here are some books that elaborate on the patterns described above:

• The Authoritarians by Bob Altmeyer (2006)
  
  
• How Propaganda Works by Jason Stanley (2015) (good content, crappy writer)
  
  
• The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump by Corey Robin (2017)
  
  
• Neoreaction a Basilisk by Elizabeth Sandifer and Jack Graham (2017)
  
  
• Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco (1995)

How Propaganda Works by Jason Stanley. ★★★★★

A well reasoned, well argued description of how propaganda works in liberal democracies with ample examples from American politics. The thing that struck me the most was its acknowledgement of class and how Stanley repeatedly quotes W. E. B. Du Bois.

Anyway, it's like a treasure trove on how to identify all sorts of propaganda in defense of truly democratic free speech.

Here are some literatures you might like:

• Formal work in social epistemology, for example network epistemology.
  
• Decision theory
  
• Empirically engaged philosophy of mind, for example anything on predictive coding.
  
• Virtue epistemology, for example Cassam's new book.
  
• Applied work in philosophy of language, for example on propoganda.
  
• Work on implicit bias, especially recent work pushing back against the existence and well-definedness of the notion itself.
  
• Politically engaged philosophical movements: philosophy of race, feminist philosophy, etc.
  
• Specific topics in philosophy of science, for example subtopics in philosophy of biology (example: what's the nature of evolution?)