The Post-Trust Society Richard Louv On Tuesday, at approximately 6:40 a.m., the Diebold optical scanner didn’t like what it tasted. The machine regurgitated the first ballot, and the second, and the third, and more after that. “Maybe it’s actually a shredder,” one of my fellow poll workers said. Using the registrar-provided mobile phone, I tried …
Columbus Dispatch
Truth be Told, Book on Lying Could Not be More Timely Mike Harden When Ralph Keyes says his new book on lying in America is doing well, he might be telling the truth. Then again, Keyes, a Yellow Springs author and social commentator, also implied that it is wise to tell curious journalists that one’s …
The Bob Edwards Show
Click below to listen to Ralph interviewed about The Post-Truth Era by Bob Edwards. [audio:https://ralphkeyes.on-forge.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/edwards_interview.mp3|titles=edwards_interview]
Review from Amazon.com
This well-researched and cogently written expose should be required reading for all Americans. Mr. Keyes utilizes both anecdotal evidence, and to the extent it is available, statistics and other evidence, to demonstrate that “truth” is a rapidly vanishing value in our current society. He then explains that the ramifications of this value decline are significant; …
Required Reading For All Americans
“This well-researched and cogently written expose should be required reading for all Americans.” Evan Haglund “elhaglund” (Phoenix, AZ)
Publishers Weekly
Casual duplicity picks at the threads of our social fabric,” Keyes warns, and not just because it creates a greater tendency toward suspicion and mistrust. The consequences of letting people get away with lying can be severe: when somebody gets a job based on a bogus résumé, for example, he or she deprives those applicants …