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This book is about the power of communication to do great harm and how civic leaders and engaged citizens can hold other leaders accountable to prevent it. Author Helio Fred Garcia focuses on the language President Trump uses that conditions an audience to accept, condone, and commit violence against a targeted group, rival, or critic. Including a history of such rhetoric, this book identifies a playbook consisting of 12 forms of communication that typically precede genocides and other acts of mass violence. The Rwandan Hutu used 10, the Nazis used all 12, and Trump uses all 12, too.

“For more than forty years Roger Cohen has ventured to every corner of the earth to chronicle the great upheavals of our age, but he’s never lost sight of what really matters: love, hope, and all the mysteries of the human heart. Here, in this collection of columns that will take you from...

Each episode delivers one powerful idea, quote, or mental model explained simply—then challenges the listener to apply it that day.

Corruption has long been one of the most pressing issues our country faces—an unending cycle that every Filipino must learn to understand and confront.And as we unravel its depth and meaning through this podcast, may we find not just awareness, but the courage to question, to speak, and to hope for something better.