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Tag Archives: Communism
Politics, Propaganda and Pornography on the Web in China
A recent New York Review of Books post by Perry Link is worth reading to learn the lengths and depths to which the Chinese government will go to control content and opinion on the Internet in that country. China has learned to … Continue reading
What The Washington Post gets wrong about The Daily Show in China
The April 9 Washington Post ran this blog post by Max Fisher about the unprecedented number of video viewings in China of a recent Daily Show segment on North Korea. (You can watch the original clip Daily Show clip here. I’m having … Continue reading
The Problem of Propaganda
Last week, the Vietnamese government sentenced two musicians on the charge of “anti-state propaganda,” apparently the first case in recent memory that Hanoi imprisoned artists under the charge. But within the month the government put on trial three writers on the same charge of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Politics and Political Theory, Public Diplomacy
Tagged aesthetics and politics, Communism, freedom of expression, hannah arendt, Hoang Nhat Thong and Viet Khang, human-rights, nature of politics, Nazi, propaganda, Public Diplomacy, repressive regimes, strategic communications, totalitarian regimes, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Vietnam, western political philosophy
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How Dictators Kiss Babies
My recent photo essay in Foreign Policy discussed the use of images of children from conflict zones in political communications and was based in large measure on my experience working at NATO. But it was also informed by a close … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Politics and Political Theory, Public Diplomacy
Tagged aesthetics and politics, Communism, Joseph Stalin, Kim Il-Sung, Kim Jong-Eun, Kim Jong-Il, nature of politics, Nicolai Ceausescu, North Korea, political communications, politics, propaganda, repressive regimes, Romania, Soviet Union, totalitarian, totalitarian regimes, totalitarianism, western political philosophy
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Hemlines, Symphonies, and Nuclear Weapons
The New York Times’ recent article about rising North Korean hemlines and the speculation they raised about changes in the country’s leadership under Kim Jong-Un was a journalist’s device for exploring the opaque nature of a hermetic and paranoid country. … Continue reading
