Hello, My name is Sammy Jacobsen, and currently, I am reading Mindhunter by John Douglas and Mike Olshaker. This book takes readers inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit, and describes, sometimes in gristly details, the motive, and murders of some of America’s most vicious serial killers. I chose this book because criminology is one of my passions, and I […]

Throughout political campaigns, it is clear that politicians used many different methods of flattery in order to gain their followings. This can be shown through personality cults used to self-promote through the political order, but also as manipulative and antidemocratic exploitation of epideictic rhetoric. A personality cult is defined as “a political legitimation strategy that functions to secure a leader’s […]