About the Book: Post-Truth
How we arrived in a post-truth era, when "alternative facts" replace actual
facts, and feelings have more weight than evidence. 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 publics retreat into "information silos."
What, exactly, is post-truth? Is it wishful thinking, political spin, mass
delusion, bold-faced lying? McIntyre analyzes