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Is Robert Mueller an antique? The role of the facts in a post-truth era

  • Written by Lee McIntyre, Research Fellow Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University

In just a little over eight minutes – on the morning of Wednesday, May 29th – the post-truth era came to an end.

Or did it?

That’s when Special Counsel Robert Mueller took the podium and addressed only the facts concerning his two-year-long investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election as well as...

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