The deep and unavoidable roots of political bias

However, this is the problem: for a vast, complex political universe, there will be a vast space of possible but distinct interpretations sensitive to genuine facts and regularities. In most cases, it won’t be a simple matter of thinking all but one system of concepts and explanatory frameworks are wrong. There’s a deep sense in which they’re all w... See more

I think the first person to grasp the unavoidability of political bias fully is the American journalist Walter Lippmann. In my vote for the most insightful paragraph ever written on the epistemological challenges confronted by citizens in large, complex, modern societies, he wrote,

“There is a bias in all opinion, even in opinion purged of desire,

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