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...
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...
In this conversation Professor Nick Enfield, Chair of Linguistics at the University of Sydney joins host Dr Chris Neff to discuss striving for understanding in language and its relation to the age of fake news. Professor Enfield contributed to research showing that, worldwide, on average we...
When does evidence obscure the truth? Join us for a forum on the avoidable causes of wrongful conviction. Wrongful convictions can and do happen – it's a sad fact of the Australian legal system. This panel will look at how evidence in legal proceedings can inadvertently...
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...