What Is the Role of Higher Education in the Age of Fake News?

Donald Trump’s firing of James Comey as the director of the FBI caused a firestorm around the United States, but for the wrong reasons. Rather than see Trump’s actions as another example of the unraveling of a lawless and crooked government, the mainstream press largely focused on the question of whether Trump or Comey are lying, in spite of Trump’s long standing history of producing falsifications and maligning the truth. Even worse, the …