When is the truth the truth, a lie a lie, and what constitutes mere BS in an era that many refer to as “post-truth”? This panel addresses the kinds of critical and largely ethical questions we confront in our modern-day discourse, exploring the intent of the First Amendment (does it protect lies?), the reasons we lie (or, in fact, are we just strategically misleading?), and, through the lens of a lawyer, a fact checker, and a scientist, the ways various of us define and “get to” the truth.
Panelists include Geoffrey Stone, Larissa MacFarquhar, Fred Dust, Drew Endy, Russell Muirhead, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, Yvonne Rolzhausen, Jack Rakove and Neal Katyal.
