How do we maintain a sense of fact and reality in a post-truth age? Are there any objective and universally accepted arbiters of truth left? How can democratic government, or even democratic argument, work without a mutually accepted body of information? Oxford politics scholar Nadia Hilliard talks about truth and post-truth in American government.

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MindPop 37: Truth and Post-Truth

A podcast about ideas, politics, and culture. Each episode, David Sehat and his guests break down the questions of the day with a bigger picture perspective. If you want engaging discussion with interesting thinkers, welcome to MindPop. About the host: David Sehat normally teaches history at Georgia State University but this year is the John G. Winant Visiting Professor of American Government at the University of Oxford. He is also the author of The Jefferson Rule (2015) and The Myth of American Religious Freedom (2011).