Category Archives: truth

(Issue #650) Fahrenheit 451

Posted on June 1, 2025 by Steve Piscitelli

What lessons or warnings did Bradbury present? Re-reading Fahrenheit 451  left me shaking my head. Was this book really written in 1953? (Rhetorical question. It was.) Bradbury wrote about censorship, interactive TV, people connected to technology rather than each other, … Continue reading →

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(#433) Verifying Truth

Posted on September 9, 2018 by Steve Piscitelli

You won’t find a step that says evaluate a source based on what “my group believes” or “who tweeted the most” or “how much I dislike a source.”  2012: Maybe it is the heat of the political campaign season. The … Continue reading →

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