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These University Presidents Were Not Lying
Ben Sasse, a Yale graduate, who was President of the University of Florida when he wrote this article for The Atlantic (he resigned from the Presidency of this public university after seventeen months, but continues to earn his one million dollar salary as President Emeritus), is correct when he says that none of the […]
Boris Johnson – the most accomplished liar in public life
In the most recent issue of The Times Literary Supplement, Rory Stewart, former Tory minister, described Boris Johnson, the current Prime Minister of the UK, as follows: “Johnson is after all the most accomplished liar in public life – perhaps the best liar ever to serve as prime minister. Some of this may have been […]
Ruskin on Lies
The February 20, 2020, issue online of The London Review of Books features a recording of the first of this year’s LRB Winter Lectures, given at the British Museum on January 31 by Colin Burrow, of Oxford University, entitled “Fiction and the Ages of Lies.” It prompted Scott Herrick, of Rio Rancho, New Mexico, to write in to […]
True Lie
The poster for this Tom Cruise movie about DEA informant Barry Seal says that it is “Based On A True Lie.” There are lies that are true. When a liar asserts what the liar believes to be false, but the liar is mistaken, and the liar asserts what is true, then the lie is a […]
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