Walter Lippmann

Giornalista e saggista, nel 1917 Walter Lippmann ricoprì la carica di sottosegretario aggiunto Usa alla Guerra: un breve interludio, che pure rappresentò uno strategico punto di osservazione delle convulsioni comunicative di una società democratica, apparentemente inconsapevole della propria complessità. Pubblicato …

Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest is the second book by American journalist and political thinker Walter Lippmann. Published in the Fall of 1914, Drift and Mastery argues that rational scientific governing can overcome forces of societal drift. Lippmann argued that due to the profound social …

Liberty and the News is Walter Lippman's classic account of how the press threatens democracy whenever it has an agenda other than the free flow of ideas. Arguing that there is a necessary connection between liberty and truth, Lippman excoriates the press, claiming that it exists primarily for its own purposes and …