41. Know-It-All Society (with Professor Michael Patrick Lynch)

In this episode of Tent Talks, I speak with Dr. Michael Patrick Lynch, who is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut. Among other things, Professor Lynch is the author and editor of ten books and director of the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut. His research concerns truth, democracy, public discourse and the ethics of technology. His work has either appeared in or been profiled in magazines such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and Wired. In this episode, I speak to Professor Lynch about his most recent book entitled Know-It-All Society: Truth and Arrogance in Political Culture. Buy the book here:

https://www.amazon.com/Know-All-Society-Arrogance-Political/dp/1631493612

Check out Professor Lynch’s TED talk and a New York Times article of his at the following links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDjM5lw8OYo

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/23/opinion/fake-news.html