BY LEE MCINTYRE
Illustration by Izhar Cohen
Some people deny facts and truth. Others deny that facts and truth are in any danger. Both are wrong. In his recent essay1 titled “Why We Are Not Living in a Post-Truth Era” (Skeptic, Vol. 24, No. 3), Steven Pinker argues not only that we are not living in a post-truth era, but that the very idea of posttruth is something of a contradiction in terms. He begins with a glib argument borrowed from a philosopher’s response to relativism: