New York Times
Kick This Rock: Climate Change and Our Common Reality
TED Talks 2017
To solve our post-truth problem, these TED speakers say we have to admit we don’t know everything.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Teaching Humility in an Age of Arrogance
New York Times
Fake News and the Internet Shell Game.
US News
The Danger of ‘American Exceptionalism’ The siren call of American exceptionalism ends up encouraging only demagoguery.
New Yorker
After the Fact: In the history of truth, a new chapter begins.
post-truth
Listen to: A New Post-Truth World?
The Stone
Trump, Truth and the Power of Contradiction.
New York Times
Googling Is Believing: Trumping the Informed Citizen.
Wired
Trump’s Lies Undermine the Promise of the Internet.
Daily Nous
$5.75 Million for Philosopher-Led Interdisciplinary Project on Public Discourse.
Open Mind
Knowing More, Understanding Less.
Stand up!
Michael Lynch, professor of philosophy and director of the humanities at the University of Connecticut, wrote an op-ed for the New York Times that caught our eye, on traditional media’s fade as trusted source of news for the average voter and it’s replacement by Google searches.
TED Radio Hour
We used to say "seeing is believing"; now googling is believing.
Neohuman
In the 8th episode of NEOHUMAN, Agah Bahari is chatting with professor Michael Lynch.
Older Items
“Privacy” https://beta.prx.org/stories/123852
Brief supporting the ACLU’s case against the NSA
Opinionator Blog The New York Times
A look at my teaching style (or lack of it): on Youtube
NPR’s ON POINT with Simon Blackburn and Stanley Fish