Julian Assange is no fool

Earlier this month, the Russian dissident artist Andrei Molodkin announced that he would seal a number of masterpieces — including a Picasso, Rembrandt and Warhol — in a safe designed to destroy them with acid were Julian Assange to die …

Pfizer Never Stops Gaslighting Us

Did you see Pfizer’s toe-tapping commercial during the Super Bowl this year? It’s a glossy, feel-good, women-empowering montage set to Queen’s song “Don’t’ Stop Me Now.” Talking statues and portraits of science-greats such as Galileo, Newton, and Einstein are mixed …

Pfizer Never Stops Gaslighting Us

Did you see Pfizer’s toe-tapping commercial during the Super Bowl this year? It’s a glossy, feel-good, women-empowering montage set to Queen’s song “Don’t’ Stop Me Now.” Talking statues and portraits of science-greats such as Galileo, Newton, and Einstein are mixed …

Propaganda Looney Tunes

I remember my history textbooks explaining the use of cartoonish figures as propaganda during the two World Wars. Imagine, for a moment, the inspiring Rosie the Riveter and Uncle Sam contrasted against the overbearing, dull, and cartoonish displays of the …