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Why Western Democracies Are No Longer Interested in Truth

Why Western Democracies Are No Longer Interested in Truth
German Chancellor Dr. Konrad Adenauer speaks at a press conference at the Dorchester Hotel, London, on Jan. 1, 1959. Keystone/Getty Images
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As a young boy, I often asked my father, a man who had been a political prisoner in communist Cuba from 1965 to 1970, why politicians don’t tell the truth.

Pedro Blas González
Pedro Blas González
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Pedro Blas González, Ph.D., is a professor of philosophy at Barry University and author of several books, including “Human Existence as Radical Reality: Ortega Y Gasset’s Philosophy of Subjectivity” and “Ortega’s ‘The Revolt of the Masses’ and the Triumph of the New Man.”
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