Trump falsely bragging to soldiers that he had ended 8 wars. Screengrab from CSPAN.

The Political Uses of Fakery

Scamming the Nation

November 2, 2025

In the year 1922 (that is 103 years ago), the public commentator Walter Lippmann published a book titled Public Opinion. A central part of his argument was, the further from our local area we look, the more dependent we are on limited and often distorted information coming from sources we know little about. This information […]

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Lawrence Davidson is a retired professor of history at West Chester University in West Chester, PA.

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