What do you see as the most influential source of mass thinking or the manufacture of consent in 2023 America? How would Walter Lippmann feel, for example, about the influence of social media on political activity or consciousness?
Here are the readings:
Reader:
Sun Yat-sen, Fundamentals of National Reconstruction
Mohandas K. Gandhi, Autobiography, excerpts
Deng Yingchao, The Spirit of the May Fourth Movement
Ho Chi Minh, Selected Writings
Kwame Nkrumah, Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism
Franz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
John Maynard Keynes, State Intervention in the Economy
Eleanor Roosevelt, What I Hope to Leave Behind
Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion, excerpts
W. H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen
Josef Stalin, The Socialist Drive