History and the Post-Fact Era

In his new book Dějiny a doba postfaktická (History and the Post-Fact Era), Igor Lukeš, a history professor at Boston University, explores Czech 20th century history and its disasters and myths, as well as today’s political problems in the Czech Republic, the US and Russia. He advances Western liberal values and warns against those who lie and deny reality and in so doing have created a “post-fact era”.