Understanding Influence: Coercion vs. Persuasion Demystified
The difference between coercion and persuasion goes to the heart of human liberty and the Anglo-Saxon legal tradition starting with the Magna Carta. Coercion, on the one hand, is the method of despotism of all stripes since time immemorial. The…
Propaganda vs. Public Relations: Differences in Manipulation
It’s possible to learn a lot from unpacking “obvious” questions. For example: What precisely is the difference between propaganda and public relations? The origins of public relations, like most of the great inventions of the 20th Century, has…