The Post-Truth Era

of contemporary life facilitate dishonesty. So do deceit-friendly intellectual trends, the many celebrity role models of self-invention, and

This book’s premise is that we may be no more prone to making things up than our ancestors were, but we are better able to get

moral compasses have broken down. Our sense of right and wrong has gone into remission

loss of a stigma attached to telling lies, and a widespread acceptance of the fact that

lies have generally been considered the antithesis of truth, and on balance best not told. Society

-friendly times. Deceiving others has become something of a leisure activity.

Ethics are judged on a

In the post-truth era this concept has become more nuanced

In the post-truth era this concept has become more nuanced. We

Honesty was once considered an all-or-nothing proposition. You were either honest or dishonest