Salvos
6 A Mess on the Sidewalk
Inside the great digital mis-engineering of the Toronto waterfront John Lorinc
24 Orphans of Dickens
The social novel at the end of society Lucy Ives
36 An American Tale
How Cold War of cialdom made the world safe for propaganda Kristen Ghodsee
60 I Saw Satan
Breaking away from a Boomer Christian cult Andrew Marzoni
78 A Dif erent Class
How autocrats get away with posing as authentocrats Joe Kennedy
92 The Century of Spin
In the formative days of public relations, elites imagined a “guided democracy” Liz Franczak
106 Beggar’s Opera
Monitoring the decline of democracy from the telemarketing trenches Matt Hanson
124 Critique of Pure Niceness
The trouble with the civility fetish Tom Whyman
Outbursts
18 Believe in Something
Corporate wokeness is now big business Yasmin Nair
52 The Innovator’s Agenda
How the busiest of buzzwords was enlisted in the capitalist cause John Patrick Leary
116 Empire of the Census
America’s long history of manipulating its headcount for political gain Ed Burmila
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