Politics · Statecraft · New
Every throne stands on opinion, and every age has manufactured it — stone monuments, travelling singers, the printing press and the translated Bible, Bernays, false flags, psyops, nudge units. The evolution of the trade and its documented record. One standing contest: the art of deception against the search for truth.
Religion · Politics · New
Two billion Muslims and a claim that Islam itself is radical — tested against the counted number of violent jihadists, a terrorism death toll that falls overwhelmingly on Muslims, the formal verdict of Islam’s own senior scholars, the survey record, and a nation-by-nation comparison of how people actually live. The scorecard is mixed — which is the finding.