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If we don’t want a post-factual world, why do we keep teaching it?

By Hugo Gurdon
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If we don’t want a post-factual world, why do we keep teaching it?

In a labored op-ed last month, New York Times columnist Richard Cohen channeled Donald Trump’s supposed thoughts about fact and fiction. “I know what Americans want,” quoth the fictional Donald, “They don’t want truth.”

Cohen’s flight of fancy casts Trump as both a demagogue and an ass. But the idea that Americans don’t want truth reinforces the notion that we live in a post-factual world.

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