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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When she left her position as chief book critic of the New York Times after nearly four decades, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Kakutani professed an interest in focusing on culture and politics. Here she follows through, investigating fake news, relativism, and the assumption that all opinions are equally valid to show that today the concept of truth is being demeaned. Ranging from pop culture to deconstructionists to Bill Clinton and Donald Trump.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
We assume all events are caused by something. Yet we happily refer to random chance be it a freak accident, or the state of quantum particles. Might causality be a fiction and inexplicable events written into the character of the universe, or with greater understanding could we find an explanation for everything? Sponsored by BBC Focus Magazine. The Panel Templeton prize winning cosmologist George Ellis, Imperial College string theorist Michael Duff...
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