The To-Read Pile 1

Science, schools, fostering, storm recovery,, institutional fidelity, and more

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My good friend Tony Mills, who also happens to be a super smart, creative, and level-headed AEI scholar of science, has a terrific long essay in The New Atlantis about the “fact-checking” industry. It provides some valuable history (including interesting Progressive-Era, Pentagon-Papers, paternalism, and pandemic connections) and then describes how journalists used to use fact-checking to keep themselves honest internally but now use it to policy public discourse…often to get the results they want.