Newitz is so skillful at elucidating such a tangled, morally contentious history that I never felt lost, though I sometimes thought that the word "psyop" was doing a lot of heavy lifting ... Sometimes Newitz succumbs to the urge to oversimplify.
The author makes a convincing case that the 21st-century epidemic of intolerance, invective, and authoritarian movements is as American as apple pie ... A cogent history and analysis of today’s toxic national discourse.
