Brainwashing is often viewed as a Cold War relic—think '60s films like "The Manchurian Candidate" and "The IPCRESS File." But Rebecca Lemov, professor of the history of science, argues in her recently ...

From Communist reeducation camps to manipulative media algorithms, mind control is a real and often remarkably effective tool, contends historian Lemov (World as Laboratory) in this trenchant study.

“It is the function of mass agitation to exploit all the grievances, hopes, aspirations, prejudices, fears, and ideals of all the special groups that make up our society, social, religious, economic, ...

In Orwell's novel, members of the Ingsoc party must accept paradoxical slogans such as "war is peace". Source: Joel Frohlich (created with Midjourney) This post is an adapted except from my Substack ...

During the Korean War, Americans became obsessed with mind control. Following the bizarre confessions of American POWs in North Korea, in which captured military personnel admitted to heinous (and ...