In 1922, American journalist and social thinker, Walter Lipp…
In 1922, American journalist and social thinker, Walter Lippmann, published an influential critique of American democracy: . In this book Lippmann concluded that the American people were ill-informed and incapable of participating in democracy; not only were modern problems beyond the understanding of ordinary men and women, but the independent citizen was nothing but a myth, instead there existed the Free Mob.