post-truth
description: disappearance of shared objective standards for truth
93 results
The World According to Physics
by Jim Al-Khalili · 10 Mar 2020 · 198pp · 57,703 words
quantum technologies is going to revolutionise our world in unimaginable ways. In the final chapter, I explore the notion of scientific truth, particularly in a ‘post-truth’ society in which many people remain suspicious of science. How does the process of science differ from other human activities? Is there such a thing
The Strange Order of Things: The Biological Roots of Culture
by Antonio Damasio · 6 Feb 2018 · 289pp · 87,292 words
against contradictory information. Disaffected electorates across the world fail to show up at voting booths. In such a climate, the spreading of false news and post-truths is made easier. The dystopian world that George Orwell once described with the Soviet Union in mind has returned to fit a different sociopolitical situation
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century
by Timothy Snyder · 14 Sep 2017 · 69pp · 15,637 words
strangeness of what was actually happening. The rhinoceri are roaming through our neurological savannahs. We now find ourselves very much concerned with something we call “post-truth,” and we tend to think that its scorn of everyday facts and its construction of alternative realities is something new or postmodern. Yet there is
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little here that George Orwell did not capture seven decades ago in his notion of “doublethink.” In its philosophy, post-truth restores precisely the fascist attitude to truth—and that is why nothing in our own world would startle Klemperer or Ionesco. Fascists despised the small
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to ascertain facts. And now, as then, many people confused faith in a hugely flawed leader with the truth about the world we all share. Post-truth is pre-fascism. 11 Investigate. Figure things out for yourself. Spend more time with long articles. Subsidize investigative journalism by subscribing to print media. Realize
Seriously Curious: The Facts and Figures That Turn Our World Upside Down
by Tom Standage · 27 Nov 2018 · 215pp · 59,188 words
limits of what is known. Alas, the information-driven, evidence-based way of looking at the world has lately fallen out of favour. In a “post-truth” world, knowledge is scorned, facts are optional (or can be challenged by “alternative facts”) and reality can be distorted or ignored. But the seriously curious
Big Capital: Who Is London For?
by Anna Minton · 31 May 2017 · 169pp · 52,744 words
America, to report accurately on a wide range of issues, and the denigration of experts and evidence, have led to the coining of the phrase ‘post-truth politics’, and strategies to combat this must be at the heart of attempts to renew democracy. A blueprint for democratic renewal in public life, in
Duty of Care: One NHS Doctor's Story of the Covid-19 Crisis
by Dr Dominic Pimenta · 2 Sep 2020 · 304pp · 95,306 words
at this moment is the strict public health measures of hand washing, avoiding unnecessary travel and working together. This is the ultimate challenge to the post-truth selfishness. A pandemic requires trust, transparency and common decency, so we all should be informed, be kind and stay safe. I never know what will
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
by Anna Lembke · 24 Aug 2021
, having too much material wealth can be as bad as having too little. Dopamine overload impairs our ability to delay gratification. Social media exaggeration and “post-truth” politics (let’s call it what it is, lying) amplify our sense of scarcity. The result is that even amidst plenty, we feel impoverished. Just
There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years
by Mike Berners-Lee · 27 Feb 2019
and income distributions and even prison statistics. The second value has, I hope, pervaded most of the book so far. Now, following an eruption of post-truth and fake news all over the world over the past few years, we turn to the third value; the critical questions of truth and trust
Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now
by Vincent Ialenti · 22 Sep 2020 · 224pp · 69,593 words
philosopher or critical sociologist to critique truth, reality, or scientific rationality. “Alternative fact” and “fake news” had become mainstream buzzwords. The Oxford English Dictionary named “post-truth” its 2016 Word of the Year. In April 2017, science became something to march on Washington for. I felt nostalgic for the Safety Case experts
How Democracy Ends
by David Runciman · 9 May 2018 · 245pp · 72,893 words
by conspiracy theories, ‘where we are seduced by the notion of hidden realities and dark conspiracies that explain everything’. This marks the beginnings of totalitarianism – ‘post-truth’, Snyder says, ‘is pre-fascism’. He highlights the dangers of simply going with the flow – the mindlessness of conformity. ‘Some killed from murderous conviction. But
Fewer, Better Things: The Hidden Wisdom of Objects
by Glenn Adamson · 6 Aug 2018 · 220pp · 64,234 words
Future War: Preparing for the New Global Battlefield
by Robert H. Latiff · 25 Sep 2017 · 158pp · 46,353 words
Thinking Without a Banister: Essays in Understanding, 1953-1975
by Hannah Arendt · 6 Mar 2018 · 653pp · 218,559 words
Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain
by James Bloodworth · 1 Mar 2018 · 256pp · 79,075 words
The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac · 25 Feb 2020 · 197pp · 49,296 words
The Startup Wife
by Tahmima Anam · 2 Jun 2021 · 297pp · 83,528 words
The Intelligence Trap: Revolutionise Your Thinking and Make Wiser Decisions
by David Robson · 7 Mar 2019 · 417pp · 103,458 words
The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey Into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future
by Geoffrey Cain · 28 Jun 2021 · 340pp · 90,674 words
Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
by Madhumita Murgia · 20 Mar 2024 · 336pp · 91,806 words
The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age
by James Crabtree · 2 Jul 2018 · 442pp · 130,526 words
Collaborative Society
by Dariusz Jemielniak and Aleksandra Przegalinska · 18 Feb 2020 · 187pp · 50,083 words
We Are as Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance
by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler · 13 Apr 2026 · 225pp · 76,418 words
The Powerful and the Damned: Private Diaries in Turbulent Times
by Lionel Barber · 5 Nov 2020
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City
by Richard Sennett · 9 Apr 2018
Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking
by Matthew Syed · 9 Sep 2019 · 280pp · 76,638 words
Your Life in My Hands: A Junior Doctor's Story
by Rachel Clarke · 14 Sep 2017 · 255pp · 80,190 words
The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order
by Rush Doshi · 24 Jun 2021 · 816pp · 191,889 words
The People vs Tech: How the Internet Is Killing Democracy (And How We Save It)
by Jamie Bartlett · 4 Apr 2018 · 170pp · 49,193 words
Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking
by Michael Bhaskar · 2 Nov 2021
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo · 12 Nov 2019 · 470pp · 148,730 words
Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
by Eric Topol · 1 Jan 2019 · 424pp · 114,905 words
New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World--And How to Make It Work for You
by Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms · 2 Apr 2018 · 416pp · 100,130 words
Greater: Britain After the Storm
by Penny Mordaunt and Chris Lewis · 19 May 2021 · 516pp · 116,875 words
Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking
by Mehdi Hasan · 27 Feb 2023 · 307pp · 93,073 words
The Nanny State Made Me: A Story of Britain and How to Save It
by Stuart Maconie · 5 Mar 2020 · 300pp · 106,520 words
New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI
by Frank Pasquale · 14 May 2020 · 1,172pp · 114,305 words
The Rise of the Outsiders: How Mainstream Politics Lost Its Way
by Steve Richards · 14 Jun 2017 · 323pp · 95,492 words
The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
by Secret Barrister · 1 Jul 2018 · 372pp · 116,005 words
The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History
by David Edgerton · 27 Jun 2018
Brexit Unfolded: How No One Got What They Want (And Why They Were Never Going To)
by Chris Grey · 22 Jun 2021 · 334pp · 91,722 words
Arguing With Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future
by Paul Krugman · 28 Jan 2020 · 446pp · 117,660 words
This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
by Peter Pomerantsev · 29 Jul 2019 · 240pp · 74,182 words
May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases—And What We Can Do About It
by Alex Edmans · 13 May 2024 · 315pp · 87,035 words
Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics
by Peter Geoghegan · 2 Jan 2020 · 388pp · 111,099 words
The Tyranny of Nostalgia: Half a Century of British Economic Decline
by Russell Jones · 15 Jan 2023 · 463pp · 140,499 words
AI in Museums: Reflections, Perspectives and Applications
by Sonja Thiel and Johannes C. Bernhardt · 31 Dec 2023 · 321pp · 113,564 words
This Is Not Normal: The Collapse of Liberal Britain
by William Davies · 28 Sep 2020 · 210pp · 65,833 words
The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything
by Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey · 27 Feb 2018 · 348pp · 97,277 words
Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason
by William Davies · 26 Feb 2019 · 349pp · 98,868 words
The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics
by Ben Buchanan · 25 Feb 2020 · 443pp · 116,832 words
Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
by Chris Hayes · 11 Jun 2012 · 285pp · 86,174 words
Grave New World: The End of Globalization, the Return of History
by Stephen D. King · 22 May 2017 · 354pp · 92,470 words
Can It Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America
by Cass R. Sunstein · 6 Mar 2018 · 434pp · 117,327 words
Radicals Chasing Utopia: Inside the Rogue Movements Trying to Change the World
by Jamie Bartlett · 12 Jun 2017 · 390pp · 109,870 words
Rage Inside the Machine: The Prejudice of Algorithms, and How to Stop the Internet Making Bigots of Us All
by Robert Elliott Smith · 26 Jun 2019 · 370pp · 107,983 words
Outnumbered: From Facebook and Google to Fake News and Filter-Bubbles – the Algorithms That Control Our Lives
by David Sumpter · 18 Jun 2018 · 276pp · 81,153 words
We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News
by Eliot Higgins · 2 Mar 2021 · 277pp · 70,506 words
How to Fix the Future: Staying Human in the Digital Age
by Andrew Keen · 1 Mar 2018 · 308pp · 85,880 words
The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State
by Jill Lepore · 24 Aug 2026 · 363pp · 122,400 words
The Story of Your Life: How Social Media Shapes the Way We Experience Everything
by Kathryn Jezer-Morton · 4 Aug 2026
The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World
by Linsey McGoey · 14 Sep 2019
Gene Eating: The Science of Obesity and the Truth About Dieting
by Giles Yeo · 3 Jun 2019 · 351pp · 112,079 words
Reset
by Ronald J. Deibert · 14 Aug 2020
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by Steven Pinker · 13 Feb 2018 · 1,034pp · 241,773 words
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
by Kurt Andersen · 4 Sep 2017 · 522pp · 162,310 words
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
by Adam Tooze · 31 Jul 2018 · 1,066pp · 273,703 words
Brexit, No Exit: Why in the End Britain Won't Leave Europe
by Denis MacShane · 14 Jul 2017 · 308pp · 99,298 words
Picnic Comma Lightning: In Search of a New Reality
by Laurence Scott · 11 Jul 2018 · 244pp · 81,334 words
99%: Mass Impoverishment and How We Can End It
by Mark Thomas · 7 Aug 2019 · 286pp · 79,305 words
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
by Steven Pinker · 14 Oct 2021 · 533pp · 125,495 words
Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything―Even Things That Seem Impossible Today
by Jane McGonigal · 22 Mar 2022 · 420pp · 135,569 words
Fantasyland
by Kurt Andersen · 5 Sep 2017
Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech
by Jamie Susskind · 3 Sep 2018 · 533pp
Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Married
by Abby Ellin · 15 Jan 2019 · 340pp · 91,745 words
WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
by Tim O'Reilly · 9 Oct 2017 · 561pp · 157,589 words
Revolting!: How the Establishment Are Undermining Democracy and What They're Afraid Of
by Mick Hume · 23 Feb 2017 · 228pp · 68,880 words
Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World
by James Ball · 19 Jul 2023 · 317pp · 87,048 words
The Dream of Europe: Travels in the Twenty-First Century
by Geert Mak · 27 Oct 2021 · 722pp · 223,701 words
Four Battlegrounds
by Paul Scharre · 18 Jan 2023
News and How to Use It: What to Believe in a Fake News World
by Alan Rusbridger · 26 Nov 2020 · 371pp · 109,320 words
Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet―and Why We're Following
by Gabrielle Bluestone · 5 Apr 2021 · 329pp · 100,162 words
The Light That Failed: A Reckoning
by Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes · 31 Oct 2019 · 300pp · 87,374 words
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
by Yuval Noah Harari · 29 Aug 2018 · 389pp · 119,487 words
Arabs: A 3,000 Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
by Tim Mackintosh-Smith · 2 Mar 2019
The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
by Jonathan Rauch · 21 Jun 2021 · 446pp · 109,157 words
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence
by Amy B. Zegart · 6 Nov 2021
Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now
by Alan Rusbridger · 14 Oct 2018 · 579pp · 160,351 words
The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
by Michiko Kakutani · 17 Jul 2018 · 137pp · 38,925 words
The Twittering Machine
by Richard Seymour · 20 Aug 2019 · 297pp · 83,651 words
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI
by Yuval Noah Harari · 9 Sep 2024 · 566pp · 169,013 words
Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, From the Ancients to Fake News
by Eric Berkowitz · 3 May 2021 · 412pp · 115,048 words
How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations With Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
by Lee McIntyre · 14 Sep 2021 · 407pp · 108,030 words
Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth
by Elizabeth Williamson · 8 Mar 2022 · 574pp · 148,233 words