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70 | How Does Propaganda Work? w/ Dr. Megan Hyska

What's Left of Philosophy

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The Role of Reason in Right Wing Politics

I was thinking a little bit about the way that the New York Times reported on Donald Trump back in 2015, 2016 because they're doing the same thing today with RFK Jr. I'm wondering like, okay, within this sort of space of your account in a world where people are so sort of atomized and alienated and isolated, there's also a kind of group formation as you were just talking about. On the one hand, that is like disempowering and alienating because you like are no longer making use of your capacity for reason. But on the other hand, there'sAlso like a reasonable way in which like that feels like being part of a group, right? Even

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