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We shouldn’t presume that ‘fake news’ is only a problem when obvious lies are driving news stories. The opposite might in fact be the case. News stories that appear honestly reported but which omit important contextual information can be just as damaging if not more so than clear smear jobs, because there’s less inclination to expose falsehoods that are not perceived as being deceptions. __‘The most mischievous errors on record,’ the 19th-century romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge once wrote, are ‘half-truths taken as the whole.’__
The Unknowers
Linsey McGoey
We are driven between agnosticism and superstition: agnosticism as despair of understanding the nature of society and its transformation, superstition as identification of our professed ideals and our recognized interests with the habitual forms of their enactment in established institutions and practices. An important example of such superstitions is the belief, graced with a hundred lives in the core of practical economics, that a market economy has a single natural or necessary legal-institutional form. A market is a market, a contract is a contract, and property is property.
The Universal History of Legal Thought
Roberto Mangabeira Unger
__How we distinguish between social roles and practical identities is an expression of how we distinguish between the realm of necessity and the realm of freedom.__ Under democratic socialism, the question of how to negotiate these distinctions is at the center of political deliberation.
This Life
Martin Hägglund
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