The role of universities in the post-truth era

By Ranjit Goswami. Here are three hypotheses:

• More and more years in colleges and universities make us understand truth and reality better, and help us in building a better, just and unified society as members of the society can take better decisions by applying better judgment.
• Ubiquitous and easily accessible information make us understand the truth or reality better, and thereby help us in making better decisions, individually as well as in a collective manner.
• More education and more information for more or all of us can make us, in general, more confused, according to anecdotal evidence. Access to higher education and information may act against our ability to make better decisions and apply judgment, or even make it harder to identify and accept experts’ views. More...