Social media would further accelerate the ascendance of what the Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu described as “the preening self” and the urge t… - Michiko Kakutani

Once he has left office, the damage he has done to American institutions and the country’s foreign policy will take years to repair.

To examine how a disregard for facts, the displacement of reason by emotion, and the corrosion of language are diminishing the very value of truth, and what that means for America and the world.

As Hannah Arendt wrote in her 1951 book, The Origins of Totalitarianism, “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.