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Common Ground with Jane Whitney
Reality Bites Back: America’s Trip Down Fantasy Lane
Season 3
Episode 311
A diverse panel from across the political spectrum discusses how the country, which once elevated science into the unofficial national religion, came to accept the parasitic oxymoron of “alternate facts” and how so many of us have come to live in an impenetrable bubble that elevates ill-considered opinion into intractable certitude.
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