Randal Marlin
Randal Marlin was a Canadian philosophy professor at Carleton University in Ottawa who specialized in the study of propaganda. He was educated at Princeton University, McGill University, the University of Oxford, Aix-Marseille University, and the University of Toronto. After receiving a Department of National Defence fellowship to study under propaganda scholar Jacques Ellul at Bordeaux in 1979–1980, he started a philosophy and mass communications class at Carleton called Truth and Propaganda, which has run annually ever since.
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- Washington, D.C.
- Educated at
- Princeton UniversityUniversity of OxfordUniversity of TorontoMcGill University
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Trending topics shown first"Down to the present day the luminous image of democracy has often served as a pretext for the most undemocratic actions."
"To avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, an alert citizenry today should take the trouble to learn how easy it can be for a powerful minority to manipulate information to win the support-or the in…"
"Party politics in modern democratic society means pandering to a wide variety of different groups and sympathizing with their often quite base motives, such as revenge, power, booty, and spoils, to ma…"
"Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning."
"Any restrictions to freedom of expression will always open the door to possible others, because analogical reasoning can mount arguments showing why this or that class of objects is closely similar to…"
"If you can show that something is to a person's advantage, they have an attractive reason for doing that thing."
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