Everyone’s entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts
Daniel J. Levitin, author of A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age, is a finalist for this year's $50,000 Donner Prize, the best public policy book of the year. Here is an excerpt.
I’m going to start by saying two things that will surely make some people very mad. First, the language we use has begun to obscure the relationship between facts and fantasy. Second, this is a dangerous by-product of a lack of education in our country that has now affected an entire generatio...
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