The War on Truth

Summing up our five-part series on the ways in which authoritarians spread and weaponize idiocy. This is your handy guide for resisting.

Authoritarianism is on the rise again, as if we learned nothing from the 20th Century. It doesn’t necessarily arrive with tanks or uniforms. In today’s world, it often marches forward in slogans, memes, and confidently stated lies. It spreads not through censorship, but through noise; not by eliminating dissent outright, but by flooding the public squa…