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The Death of Truth

The Death of Truth

By Michiko Kakutani

Notes on Falsehood in an Age of Trump. Tim Duggan Books, 2018.

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A brief summary of The Death of Truth

A riveting account of how the shifting media landscape, explosion in online news and willful manipulation by Russia have polarized politics and made the truth unfashionable, echoing the claims of postmodernist academics and totalitarian propagandists.

Key insights in The Death of Truth

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What do you get from this book? The story of how truth lost its value and how politicians exploited it
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America has always had its conspiracy theorists, but the rejection of reason is reaching a new pitch
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Postmodernism in academia has leaked into popular culture and politics, creating the conditions for truth to be disregarded
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We live in an age of unprecedented vanity, selfishness, and narcissism, enabled by right-wing politics, social media, and information overload
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Reality is denied through the devaluing of language, as the 20th century totalitarians knew well
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Tribalism is growing as a result of social media and algorithms, while attention spans collapse
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Russia and the right have weaponized the internet, using fake news to incite racism and exhaust people’s interest in politics
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Who should read The Death of Truth

Politics buffs • conspiracy theorists • those worried about the future • historians • people interested in literature • social media users

About the author of The Death of Truth

Michiko Kakutani is the former chief book critic at The New York Times, where she worked for over thirty years, and whose reviews aided the success of writers like Zadie Smith and David Foster Wallace. She is a Yale graduated, worked at The Washington Post as a reporter, and has a Pulitzer Prize in literary criticism.

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