DENY COHERENT BELIEFS, ENJOY THE INCOHERENCE.  Pierre Tristam finds little to like in the press coverage of Donald Trump's credential-baiting or of a very public wedding in Britain.

We’re living through something like a reverse Renaissance, a retro dark age where faith in manufactured fictions becomes more powerful than fact. That a sizable portion of Americans believe Obama was not born in this country is no different than the sizable portion of Americans who think he’s Muslim, or the equally sizable portion of Americans who to this day think Saddam Hussein plotted the 9/11 attacks or that those weapons of mass destruction will turn up one of these days and prove the Iraq invasion sham right after all, or the even more sizable portion of Americans who don’t know their socialism from their Medicare. If people want to believe in their prejudices, they’ll invent the stories to make those prejudices stick.

Limitations on the social construction of knowledge. Imagine that.  Imagine, also, that teachers and professors instill the skills to deconstruct arguments for their lack of logic and content, rather than to uncover hidden agendas.