Kent Anderson

The belief that we can't cause damage has made us reckless and smug We’ve lived during one of the most stable periods in history, with the last World War ending generations ago, vaccines and public health elevating us out of the persistent grip of imminent death from disease, major improvements in transportation and communication making travel and connection seem like commodities, and financial, legal, and social practices that have largely kept the world imperfectly but reliably on course.

A book about political misinformation contains lessons for science and scholarship Richard L. Hasen’s recent book, “Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics—and How to Cure It,” focuses mainly on US political misinformation and its role in destabilizing American democracy.