In a recent book, three professors argue that the American mind has been poisoned; that is to say, millions of people have been conditioned to believe certain ideas, automatically reject others, and can no longer discern truth from falsehood. In today’s Martin Center article, I review it.

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One of the author/editors is sociologist Lawrence Eppard. In his opening essay, “The Golden Age of Information,” he makes the point that, although people have access to more information than ever before, much of it is unreliable and even dishonest. He laments that the “guardrails” that used to restrain the publication of misleading or even blatantly false information have been largely demolished,........

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