Tag: post-truth

Nixon did not pay for his lies, and neither will Kissinger.

Trump is more dangerous than a mere liar because he found a way to exploit the economic doppelganger of science.

[B]y controlling access, selection and financing, [Facebook News] can become the global Big Brother in news management.

Unmoored from a conventional, common understanding of what constitutes truth, Americans had become dangerously susceptible to demagoguery, hysteria, and even subversion by a foreign power.

Finally, and perhaps most unnervingly for Trump, it is simply not possible to know what evidence Mueller and his team of investigators have gathered because in a capital that is awash with leaks his is the only office that has proved to be watertight.

[Trump] is more concerned about the brand that he espouses than a consistent policy that upholds the common good.

It is not a coincidence that Trump is throwing around accusations of “fake news.” He knows it will annoy and polarize.

It would not be improbable to suspect that the establishment itself has sown the seeds of populism.