Truth After Post-Truth: Finding a Way Forward (Journalism and Democracy)

Examining truth, expertise, and authority in the contemporary United States In an era defined by accusations of "fake news," declining institutional trust, and deepening political polarization, Truth After Post-Truth reframes the debate about knowledge and democracy in the United States.Rather than treating the so-called post-truth crisis as a failure of public reasoning or the product of bad-faith actors and digital misinformation, this interdisciplinary volume argues that the problem runs deeper and that solutions require renewed democratic deliberation about how public knowledge itself should be produced, evaluated, and shared. Contributors move beyond familiar diagnoses that blame either misinformed citizens or manipulative media systems.Instead, they interrogate the intellectual and political norms that underwrite claims about truth, expertise, and authority.This book challenges the assumption that restoring democracy depends on returning the public to a fixed set of knowledge pra