I’ve recently read Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism. It was a bestselling title on Amazon in 2017, a fact attributed to Trump’s election. But as the book makes clear totalitarian politics has no single or clear origin. No one …
Tag: Post-truth
The Politics of Denialism is Becoming the New Normal
Phrases like post-truth and fake news are closely associated with Brexit and Trump, but the antecedent of modern disinformation is Holocaust denial.
Holocaust denial is as much about the tarnishing of expertise as it is an anti-semitic conspiracy theory. But …