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There's "true." There's "false." And then there are "true enough," "should be true," "really true only the men in black keep it secret," and "not really true but I'll believe it anyway."

Do we live in a "post-fact society," where individuals and the media are at liberty to invent "truth" as they see fit? Farhad Manjoo, Salon blogger extraordinaire, fears we may. Moreover, rather than 24-hour news channels and the Internet making it easier for us to divine the truth, they make it easier for others to define it for us.

How does this happen? What results? What can we do about it?

Farhad tackles these subjects in his book, True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society. Join him for discussion in the Inkwell.

Hosted by: David Adam Edelstein (davadam), Bruce Umbaugh (bumbaugh), Lisa Harris (lrph)

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