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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Joy Murray, 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...
Presented by Sydney Ideas, Sydney Democracy Network and the Post-Truth Initiative Renowned journalist Glenn Greenwald discusses his favourite subjects: power and accountability, surveillance and privacy, Trump and fake news, threats to democracy, courage, and the role of journalism in giving a voice to perspectives and events that are ignored and silenced by...
David Schlosberg, 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...