RealClear Radio Hour – Politics, Propaganda, & Cultural Evolution

Propaganda and Cultural Evolution

OCT 10, 2015

Mark Stahlman, Marshall McLuhan scholar and Founder and President of the Center for the Study of Digital Life, compares the world’s “operating systems”: East, West, and digital. Stahlman analyzes what communication systems say about society—from radio propaganda to democratic memes—and studies what the China Operating System for Society bodes for the future.

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Politics and Propaganda

OCT 10, 2015

Robert Tracinski, senior writer at The Federalist and editor of The Tracinski Letter, shares his take on political antics of the day. Tracinski discusses how the anti-candidates became the Republican front runners, immigration policy became a wedge issue, and the Pope married Christianity with religious environmentalism.

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