In a general way, a major goal of the propagandist is to seek some kind of authoritative backing for the belief he or she is propagating.

In modern times sound policy-making must often come to grips with numbers.

If war is glorified, it tends to eclipse the policies it is meant to serve.

When we consider propaganda as the attempt to shape the thoughts and feelings of others, in ways conforming to the aims of the communicator, we find a vast array of different examples throughout history.

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 maintain the necessary level of support.

Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning.

The special harm attaching to prior restraint is that the government can keep materials from reaching the public, so there can be no accountability, no judgment by the people that the power to suppress was wrongly exercised.