True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society is one of the most important and relevant books I've read in a long time. I'd recommend that every librarian, heck, every educator and every citizen read this book. Manjoo looks at a lot of topics, but the main theme revolves around how, paradoxically, the overload of information today gets us further away from a factual accounting of the world and more into a world where opinion counts more.
True Enough looks through various information sources (internet, TV news, print journalism, advertising, others) and shows how people pick and choose information to create the world they want to see based on their pre-disposed opinions (and liberals are skewered as well as conservatives for those of you who worry about ideology). Manjoo translates the psychological scholarship on these issues into a very readable form. Other forms of fact/opinion influences (peer-pressure, public relations efforts, others) are also discussed.
Manjoo's book highlight's why information literacy and critical thinking are so important in today's world, and yet so undervalued by society at large. A terribly important book for the times.
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