Jacque Ellul’s The Technological Society, originally published in 1954, has become a footnote to one of the stranger events in U.S. history. A terrorist known as the Unabomber spent almost 20 years ...

From time to time readers send me suggestions. Some are helpful. Recently two books were suggested, "Propaganda" by Jacques Ellul and "Manipulating the Masses" by John Hamilton. Ellul’s book, written ...

Imagine for a moment that pretty much everything you think about technology is wrong. That the devices you believed are your friends are in fact your enemies. That they are involved in a vast ...

1912: French social critic Jacques Ellul is born. He will become a thoughtful skeptic who worries about the negative impact of technology on the human condition. Jacques Ellul wore many hats: ...

In the age of information overload, propaganda helps us find a place to belong. So, fake news. In recent months, these two words have been used as a weapon by the president to discredit the media (e.g ...