After the audience applauds Clinton’s bad answer, the news media replays the clip as an example of how soundly she defeated her debate opponents. Accounts of her supposed victory are dutifully and gleefully circulated by the usual suspects in the press and soon saturate social media. “Hillary Clinton had the perfect response,” proclaims a

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But if there is one overriding aim of this book it is not just to call attention to errors like the ones mentioned above but also, and more importantly, to show that our most seemingly infallible institutions are often prone to error. It is to imprint on our consciousness that we have to question not just our sources (since it is difficult to find... See more