TMQ recommends the just-out book The Post-Truth Era by Ralph Keyes, a fascinating and important dissection of how American culture encourages making things up. In our fabricated docudrama-world, what matters is not what you can establish as true but what you can confuse people into thinking might be true — Michael Moore on the left and the Swift Boat guys on the right are the current exemplars of “post-truth” politics. Keyes’ excellent new book should be read in conjunction with the 2003 The Cheating Culture by David Callahan, also well-written and important.
Gregg Easterbrook, Tuesday Morning Quarterback on NFL.Com