I do not know how many dinner parties or other social events I have had to sit through - biting my tongue - where the latest on global warming or ‘war on terror’ conspiracy theories were served up as absolute and undeniable truths. Maybe I should just be myself and like Andrew Klavan take the risk of losing a few friends. He’s explained it all in your must-read this week, The Big White Lie and also manages to produce the absolute gem of the month:

With its tortuous attempts to rename unpleasant facts out of existence—he’s not crippled, dear, he’s handicapped; it’s not a slum, it’s an inner city; it’s not surrender, it’s redeployment—leftism has outlived its own failure by hiding itself within the most labyrinthine construct of social delicacy since Victoria was queen.

Read the entire thing and consider your relationship with what you consider to be ‘truth’.