Fake news. Alternative facts. Post-truth politics. Three issues that dominate much current discussion, all connected to new anxieties about how we can distinguish truth and falsity, and all seemingly linked to the election of Donald Trump as US President. Trump’s election victory was, for many, fuelled by a wave of fake news. His proclivity to lie, for instance about the size of the crowd at his inauguration, has been reframed by his advisor Kellyanne Conway as the acceptance of ‘alternative […]

Categories: Philosophy & Ethics, Politics • Tags: alain de benoist, alt right, alternative facts, donald trump, enlightenment, fake news, far right, identitarian movement, identity politics, left, post-truth, postmodernism, relativism, truth, universalism