From Rational Persuasion to Psychological Manipulation: How Social Science Overturned Liberal Governance

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Monday September 27, 2021, 5:00 -6:30 p.m. at the Zephyr Institute
560 College Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94306

According to Aristotle, despotism is a distinct form of misrule. The despot rules over creatures who are presumed to be devoid of reason. Yet in liberal countries we increasingly find that governments make this presumption about the citizenry. How did this happen? During the 1990s and 2000s, certain currents of academic thought in political science and economics prepared the ground for the kind of political situation we find ourselves in today. Our discussion will explore those schools and how their aspirations came to fruition.

Drinks and snacks served at 5 p.m. with lecture and discussion to follow.

Matthew B. Crawford is a senior fellow at the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. Author of the New York Times bestseller Shopclass as Soulcraft and other books, his writing has appeared in American Affairs, The New Atlantis, Unherd, The Hedgehog Review and many other outlets. He received his PhD in the history of political thought from the University of Chicago.

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