05 Dec Alexander Heffner on America’s ‘crisis of incivility’
Alexander Heffner, host of The Open Mind on PBS, tells Beverley O'Connor the US is experiencing a "crisis of incivility". Originally published on ABC The World...
04 Dec Truth and Power – Sarah Haider
A speech delivered by Sarah Haider at the Post-Truth Initiative End of Year Event "Is Truth Dead? From Power and the Media to Science and Reason" on 20 November 2017 Sarah Haider Ex-Muslims of North America Sarah is an American writer, speaker, and activist. Born in Pakistan and...
04 Dec Truth and the Media – Alexander Heffner
A speech delivered by Alexander Heffner at the Post-Truth Initiative End of Year Event "Is Truth Dead? From Power and the Media to Science and Reason" on 20 November 2017 Alexander Heffner The Open Mind, PBS Alexander Heffner was a special correspondent for PBS’s Need to Know chronicling...
04 Dec Truth and Reason – Helen Pluckrose
A speech delivered by Helen Pluckrose at the Post-Truth Initiative End of Year Event "Is Truth Dead? From Power and the Media to Science and Reason" on 20 November 2017 Helen Pluckrose Areo Magazine Helen Pluckrose is a researcher in the humanities who focuses on late medieval/early modern...
04 Dec The role of experts as truth-tellers – Tom Nichols
A speech delivered by Professor Tom Nichols at the Post-Truth Initiative End of Year Event "Is Truth Dead? From Power and the Media to Science and Reason" on 20 November 2017 Tom Nichols U.S. Naval War College Tom Nichols is a Professor of National Security Affairs at the...
17 Nov A Robert De Niro Theory of Post-Truth: ‘Are you talking to me?’
Colin Wight, University of Sydney This article is part of an ongoing series from the Post-Truth Initiative, a Strategic Research Excellence Initiative at the University of Sydney. The series examines today’s post-truth problem in public discourse: the thriving economy of lies, bullshit and propaganda that threatens...
17 Nov We’re in a post-truth world with eroding trust and accountability. It can’t end well
By Nick Enfield In our new normal, experts are dismissed and alternative facts flagrantly offered. This suspicion of specialists is part of a bigger problem We often defer to others’ expertise, and for good reason. The entire edifice of modern society only exists thanks to the division of...
30 Oct USYD at Sydney Writers’ Festival: Professor Nick Enfield on How We Talk and the Post Truth Initiative
By Sydney Uni Illustration and words by Yasodara Puhule-Gamayalage As people start to leave the Richard Wherrett Studio after the panel discussion, I am hurried by the volunteer usher who shouts ‘run!’, kindly hoping that I won’t miss Professor Nick Enfield. I hurry against the crowd, with...
26 Oct Broken News – Rob Wijnberg
This is part of the Festival of Democracy 2017 Rob Wijnberg, De Correspondent Chair: Professor Peter Fray Comments by Lenore Taylor, The Guardian Australia Co-hosted by Sydney Ideas, Post-Truth Initiative, UTS School of Communication and Sydney Democracy Network The Great Hall, the Quadrangle | 14 September 6pm Our news is broken. It informs us most about the least...
26 Oct For and Against Truth – Prof John Keane and Prof Colin Wight
Co-hosted by Sydney Ideas, the Post-Truth Initiative and the Sydney Democracy Network This is part of the Festival of Democracy 2017 There are many signs we’ve entered a ‘post-truth’ era defined by the burial of ‘objective facts’ thanks to a public avalanche of ‘appeals to emotion and personal belief’ (OED). Critics...