Democracy and Truth

Sophia Rosenfeld is a historian at the University of Pennsylvania. She's published an incisive and timely book about the fraught relationship between democratic governance and, well, the truth. Turns out that when it comes to politics--SPOILER ALERT--not everything you hear is factual. And some people--SPOILER ALERT--believe falsehoods even after they've been debunked. But aren't facts necessary to democratic debate and governance? How can we address these fundamental problems? Sophia has a few ideas. Join us!

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Democracy and Truth is an episode from Your Weekly Constitutional by Your Weekly Constitutional.

This episode is 53:00 long.

This episode was published on Oct 3, 2019.

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