The Ezra Klein Show

How politics became a war against reality

In his brilliant 2014 book Nothing is True and Everything is Possible , Soviet-born TV producer turned journalist Peter Pomerantsev described 21st-century Russia as a political anomaly. He wrote about “a new type of authoritarianism” that waged war on reality by peddling conspiracy theories, disregarding the notion of truth, and framing all political…