OPINION: Belief, popularity differ from the truth

From the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, to the 2020 election, columnist George Ayoub explores Americans' relationship with the truth.

By: George Ayoub

Outlets: Nebraska Examiner

Published: August 10, 2026

Words: 760

Last Updated: 1 week, 1 day ago

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When historians finish chronicling the politics and cultural issues of this age, librarians and booksellers may have to file those annals among other works of fiction. That’s because the conundrum of our time has become our tenuous relationship with the truth.

There’s more. Considering our wont to let slide all manner of “truthiness,” whether we care enough about the dysfunction remains an open question.

Unless you’ve been vacationing on a distant planet without wifi, you …

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