The Language Game Is Hard to Keep Up With in the Progressive Unity

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i am actually not a fan of this notion of placing taboos on words and doing a lot of speech policing. I think it's back firing, i think it's basically hostile. The real progress comes from the moral mention of gays and anti-gay dialogue - which takes time but does it need to happen?

Disinformation. Trolling. Conspiracies. Social media pile-ons. Campus intolerance. On the surface, these recent additions to our daily vocabulary appear to have little in common. But together, they are driving an epistemic crisis: a multi-front challenge to America’s ability to distinguish fact from fiction and elevate truth above falsehood.

In episode 190, Michael Shermer speaks with Jonathan Rauch as he reaches back to the parallel eighteenth-century developments of liberal democracy and science to explain what he calls the “Constitution of Knowledge” — our social system for turning disagreement into truth. His book is a sweeping and readable description of how every American can help defend objective truth and free inquiry from threats as far away as Russia and as close as the cellphone.