Politics in a Fallen World: Lying, Fact-Checkers, and the Future of Civilization
…y do. This makes me think of fact-checkers today. They’re holding up this ideal for truthful discourse. But even politicians who, I think, would be considered fairly honest are still going to fall short of a perfect PolitiFact score. Everyone is fudging. There’s a divide between our sense of how leaders should behave, and what we all know they actually do. We just assume now that all politicians are essentially lying every time they open their mou…
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