The debate over the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) in late 2018 showcases crucial role of digital and, particular, social media as vehicles disinformation that populist actors can exploit an effort to create resentment fear public sphere. While mainstream political legacy initially did not address issue, right-wing claimed ownership by framing (presumably <em&gt...

David Hare tells a Covid-19 patient's experience in his play Beat the Devil: A Covid Monologue staged 2020. Starting from own experience, sheds light on an old individual’s process. Since he does not know how virus influences him, loses confidence health sector and government's politics. The text shows older man's lonely struggle for finding truth post-truth era when can be quickly warped throu...

This is a commentary on the article ‘The rise of post-truth populism in pluralist liberal democracies: challenges for health policy.’ It critically examines two of its key concepts: populism and ‘post truth.’ This commentary argues that there are different types of populism, with unclear links to impacts, and that in some ways, ‘post-truth’ has resonances with arguments advanced in the period a...

Realists and supporters of ‘democratic underlabouring’ have recently challenged the traditional separation between political theory practice. Although both attack Jürgen Habermas for being an idealist whose philosophy is too removed from politics, I argue that this interpretation inaccurate. While Habermas’s social indeed oriented to truth understanding, he has sought realize his communicative ...

Horwich (Mind 123(491), 2014) has argued that only someone with inflationary tendencies could feel inclined to endorse truth relativism. In doing so, he argues deflationism about entails the denial of If sound, Horwich’s argument entail relativism is incompatible any conception our ordinary predicate according which there some sort equivalence between a ground-language claim p and corresponding...

Truth claims in political discourse are implicated in a dialogic process whereby political actors "assimilate, rework, and re-accentuate" prior discourse (Bakhtin 1986:89). While political actors themselves may view truth as an object to be discovered, I argue that discourse analysts are best served by viewing truth as an emergent property of this dialogic process. In this paper, I examine how ...

Abstract This article examines the movement, led by prominent black British activists, which was established in aftermath of 1981 New Cross fire. The campaign showed how racism long experienced urban communities eroded trust state institutions, and it contested official narrative police investigation a coroner’s inquest through protests deployment alternative forms expertise. not an isolated ca...