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Knowledge Under Attack

IDEAS Posted: October 20, 2020 1:58 pm

Richard Ovenden’s thesis is that books can be destroyed literally, as they were by the Nazis, or symbolically, when their contents are either made unavailable or systematically robbed of their authority. As he states, in an era of fake news and “alternative facts”, it is hard not to conclude that “the truth itself is under attack”. – The Critic

IDEAS Published: 10.18.20

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