Are you as exhausted as I am by the manipulative tone of today’s political scene? British author George Orwell blamed the English language for the ease with which it’s manipulated. That’s a bit like ...

Recent research by Setyaningsih and Rakhmawati (2025) examined the hidden meanings embedded in manipulative love-bombing language. One striking finding was that exaggerated affection often shifts ...

Saul (Lying, Misleading, and What Is Said), a professor of the social and political philosophy of language at the University of Waterloo, analyzes in this cogent study two linguistic devices that ...

Narcissists often falsely accuse others of manipulation. Discover the true difference between healthy, strategic ...

Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered is the title of the highly influential 1973 book written by the German-born British economist E.F. Schumacher. The book marked its 50th ...

Trump to Israel: Let the al-Qaeda Guy Handle Hezbollah An Epochal Mass Casualty Attack Targeting ‘Capitalist Elites’ Thwarted Has Trump Promised Iran That He’ll Stop Israel from Fighting Hezbollah?

In the first of a two-part series, we explore the risk to society that generative AI and social media pose in data manipulation terms, and whether it could lead to a 1984 ‘Newspeak’-based world moving ...