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Shock and Awe in pre-post-truth America

The quote ‘What’s past is prologue,’ from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, is displayed on the National Archives in Washington. There’s a reason it’s a favourite of military strategists.

In Shock and Awe, James Marsden, left, and Woody Harrelson play two Knight Ridder reporters who are skeptical of the Bush administration's claims of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.Photograph courtesy of Vertical Entertainment

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

August 1, 2018

If you were going to choose a date to mark the dawn of the ironically, erroneously labelled post-truth era, it wouldn’t be the day former United States president Bill Clinton lied about Monica Lewinsky or the day the country’s current president, Donald Trump, called Mexican immigrants to the Uni...

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