Jim’s Reviews > One Nation, Two Realities: Dueling Facts in American Democracy > Status Update

An excellent take on the “competing facts” phenomenon. Their focus is on the role of psychological factors, especially values, in shaping what people believe to be true. They are quite pessimistic—insisting, probably correctly, that this will be with us for a long time and will probably get worse. They do point out that traditional remedies, like education and fact-checking, simply do (and will) not work.