Sublime

Si on reprend le mood américain7, plusieurs épisodes de la vie politique de ce pays s’éclairent alors sous un autre jour. L’élection de Ronald Reagan a été très souvent interprétée comme le triomphe de la communication politique. De fait, cet ancien acteur de cinéma a initié une rupture dans la manière de mobiliser les médias télévisés, de se mettr

Here’s a secret: we have long known how to supercharge education; we just can’t quite pull it off. Benjamin Bloom, an educational psychologist, published a paper in 1984 called “The 2 Sigma Problem.”1 In this paper, Bloom reported that the average student tutored one-to-one performed two standard deviations better than students educated in a conven

to create more informed, smarter-thinking societies, public messaging needs to disentangle evidence from identity.

Brock has cultivated an impressive body of liberal megadonors and assembled an eclectic collection of no fewer than thirty smear-related projects, most notably his flagship “media watchdog,” Media Matters. This collection of groups was cited to me by nearly every Democrat and Republican operative I interviewed as the most ubiquitous and successful

Connally realized that Johnson was talking about revolutionizing Texas politics. Thanks to polling, Johnson would be able to discover exactly what issues “touched” Texas voters. And when he found one that touched, he could hammer it into the voters’ consciousness, in speeches on the radio, in ads on the radio, in ads in newspapers, in mailings—with

When Donald Trump claimed that he used his own money to finance his primary campaign, he was really declaring, to the chagrin of his party leadership, that he was not to be part of Washington’s massive network of intertwining patron–client relationships.

If Mill’s hypothesis is wrong and Schumpeter is right, we must ask some hard questions: How much do we really want people to participate in politics? How much should people even be allowed to participate?

The people lack any real opportunity to think in depth about what they really want done. Instead they have competitive political sports and distractions. It is a kind of limited democracy with barely the pretense of engaging the will of the people.1