In 2016, Oxford University Press chose “post-truth” (based on popularity, in large part) as the word of the year: “Relating to… circumstances in which… facts are less influential… than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” This was also the year Donald Trump was first elected President of the United States. Almost a decade later, (post-) truth featured heavily in physician and writer Abraham Verghese’s commencement address at Harvard University: “This is almost the reflex of........

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