Rebecca Gordon: Confronting “Alternative Facts”
This popular belief that nobody really does or can know anything is the perfect soil for an authoritarian leader to take root.
January 11, 2019 · 2 Comments
Video: David Brooks — “Trump and Afterwards: The Next American Culture”
. In this hour-long lecture, New York Times columnist David Brooks talks about the major trends in American culture over the last 50 years and how they have led to … Continue reading
March 25, 2018 · Leave a comment
Mike Schneider: In the Post-Truth World
the game of truth or consequences has no consequence. What does it matter if insurance agents quote Thoreau? The mass of men still lead lives of quiet desperation. Guns are … Continue reading
February 2, 2017 · 6 Comments
Hannah Arendt: On the use of lies as a political strategy
In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing … Continue reading
January 31, 2017 · 3 Comments
