Pillar route
Media, education, and information
How schools, books, curricula, newspapers, publishing, censorship, and propaganda shape memory, legitimacy, and public opinion.
Media, education, and information
Propaganda, schooling, universities, print, broadcast, platforms, and the shaping of belief.
- politics
Client dictators: the strongmen the powers kept
The strongmen the great powers installed or sustained in the Global South: the coups that made them, from Iran 1953 and Guatemala 1954 to Mobutu and Chile 1973...
politicswardiplomacysociety - movement
World's fairs, festivals, and the age of spectacle
The great designed spectacles: the World's Fairs from the 1851 Crystal Palace to Chicago's White City, showcases of empire and industry and their colonial human zoos...
culturetechnologyeconomydiplomacy - movement
Ptolemy: the map of the heavens and the earth
Claudius Ptolemy of Roman Alexandria and the three books that ruled for fourteen centuries: the Almagest's Earth-centered cosmos, the Geography's coordinate map of the world, and the Tetrabiblos of astrology...
sciencereligionexplorationculture - movement
Cultural Marxism: critical theory and the conspiracy theory
Two different things share this name. One is real intellectual history: Gramsci's cultural hegemony, the Frankfurt School, and Marcuse's influence on the New Left...
politicsculturesociety - movement
Curriculum, programming, and propaganda
How schooling and media program minds: the deliberate use of curricula, textbooks, re-education, and mass persuasion to shape what people believe. The overlap of the education pillar and the media pillar.
politicssocietywarreligion - pillar
The pillars of modern power
The load-bearing power blocks of modern society, read off the data itself: money and finance; state, law, and coercion; military and security; production and labor; land and resources; infrastructure and logistics...
pillarpoliticseconomysociety - movement
The history of education
How societies pass on knowledge: the ancient academies, the medieval universities, the printing revolution, the rise of mass public schooling and compulsory education, literacy...
societypoliticsculturereligion - movement
Leaks, whistleblowers, and disclosures
What the secret record revealed when it came to light: the Pentagon Papers, the Church Committee, WikiLeaks, Snowden, the Panama and Pandora Papers, and the great declassifications.
politicseconomytechnologywar