David Keyes

“Mr. Keyes’ book is both pertinent and well-timed.” When I was four or perhaps five years old I was out on the porch playing with a child’s set of plastic carpenter’s tools with a neighbor child, Curt Tacey.  For reasons lost to history, I took the hammer and clunked Curt on the head with it.  …

“Keyes is an author of keen perception and wide-ranging observation. He has pulled together an enormous body of evidence, all pointing to the pervasive rise of dishonesty in American life.” Have we now reached a stage of social evolution that is “beyond honesty?” That fascinating question is raised by author Ralph Keyes in his new …

“This exceptional book asks and answers a diverse series of questions. Keyes’s book deserves a wide readership.” Among the most fascinating things in Ralph Keyes’s The Post-Truth Era: Dishonesty and Deception in Contemporary Life (St. Martin’s, $24.95) is his look at the ways in which morality and leadership converge. Keyes relates the results of studies …

“an important, provocative new book .” Is all that matters in contemporary culture whether a line sounds good? That’s the thesis of an important, provocative new book, The Post-Truth Era, by Ralph Keyes. It’s Keyes’s thesis that in the current ethos, whether something is believed has become more important than whether it’s true. Keyes cites …

“a thoughtful, often amusing look at the way we dodge the truth and tolerate dishonesty.” Lying is so much a part of everyday life that everybody does it and everybody expects it, even while polls show Americans long for ethics and integrity in public officials. Keyes examines how we have come to the troubling trend …