Fake news stuns political players and observers alike. But isn't it true that lies, whose definition is often relative, are part of history? Only knowledge, debate and argumentation can break down its damaging potential.
La critique littéraire est une activité qui demande du temps, mais surtout une bonne musculature dorsale. Car avec les piles de livres à réceptionner, la contracture guette! Toutefois, avant de recevoir les romans sous pli, faut-il encore que les maisons d’édition répondent aux sollicitations…
Rarely has a state lie had such dramatic consequences. In 2003, the Bush administration presented false evidence of Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction, before invading the country and getting bogged down in a bloody war.
Among all the forms of lying that populate our daily lives - lies of omission, pious lies, self-interested lies, pathological lies - one singular category seems to hold the rope in these turbulent times: the shameless lie.
According to Kant, a lie undermines the foundations of the state, while a deceptive truth is acceptable. Two centuries later, with President Clinton, the same logic still seems to be at work in the Lewinsky affair.
It may sound like a trite phrase, like «there's no such thing as hot without cold», but remembering that there's no such thing as a lie without the truth has the merit of bringing back to the table a fact that has become too old-fashioned in certain intellectual circles: truth exists.
Fable returns with Garrone and Benigni
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