While this study, by a doctor and psychiatrist, deals centrally with "brainwashing" in Communist China it also involves broader considerations of totalism--the tendency toward "all-or-nothing ...

Lifton wrote about this more than 60 years ago (he is still alive and nearing his 100th birthday), and in his original work, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism, he was talking about ...

The pitch-black industrial drumming and fractious guitar clangs elicit the measured brutality of Swans and the totalism of Glenn Branca, underpinned by the metallic hypnosis of New York no wave group ...

Jeff Bezos endorsed a Trump-era slogan—“Democracy Dies in Darkness”—for his newspaper, the Washington Post. Why wouldn’t he let it endorse a candidate?

Experts at PIIA seminar discuss burning issues the world is facing today ...

In his 1961 book Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism, Robert Jay Lifton described ‘thought-terminating clichés’, which occur when the most far-reaching and complex of human problems are ...

China’s population fell by two million in 2023, marking the second straight year of decline. Statistics suggest that China’s total fertility rate, which has steadily declined from 1.5 births ...

The distinction between totalitarianism and totalism offers valuable insights for China studies and the making of U.S. China policy.

Your definition of totalism seems very similar to Hannah Arendt’s definition of totalitarian ideology. Is the difference that it’s applicable not just to states but also to smaller groups?

There have been many reports about the trend for reducing alcohol in-take, particularly among Gen Z and younger. As a wine lover and professional I can never fully support tee-totalism (unless for ...

A narrative is forming around Les Rallizes Denudes that perhaps some of their haunting strength has sprung from the lo-fi quality of their bootlegs. Cal Cashin spends time with the new crystal clear ...

In 1954, Robert Oppenheimer was subjected to what was rightly called “an extraordinary American inquisition” under the name of a security hearing. But while extremely harmful professionally and ...