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What is Post-Truth about?

Are we living in a post-truth world, where "alternative facts" replace actual facts and feelings have more weight than evidence? How did we get here? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lee McIntyre traces the development of the post-truth phenomenon from science denial through the rise of "fake news," from our psychological blind spots to the public's retreat into "information silos." What, exactly, is post-truth? Is it wishful thinking, political spin, mass delusion, bold-faced lying? McIntyre analyzes recent examples — claims about inauguration crowd size, crime statistics, and the popular vote — and finds that post-truth is an assertion of ideological supremacy by which its practitioners try to compel someone to believe something regardless of the evidence. Yet post-truth didn't begin with the 2016 election; the denial of scientific facts about smoking, evolution, vaccines, and climate change offers a road map for more widespread... Post-truth; truth; fact; post-fact; alternative facts; Donald Trump; fake news; science; denial; denier; postmodernism; cognitive bias; confirmation bias; Hillary Clinton; bullshit; Hilary

Author

Lee C. McIntyre

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262345989

Subjects

Philosophy, Political Science, Humanities

Rating

4.4 / 5 (558 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14