Ever since this year’s presidential campaign kicked into high gear, everybody’s become a fact-checker, from tweeters watching the party conventions at home right on up to Tim Kaine, who used the vice-presidential debate as a forum for grilling Mike Pence about the veracity of various statements made by Donald Trump. So it seems like a particularly apt time for the University of Chicago Press to release the latest in its series of publishing guides, The Chicago Guide to Fact-Checking.
Borel includes exercises to “think like a fact-checker.” This habit of mind, she argues, can make for better readers and better online citizens. Is it too much to hope that it can make for a better democracy? v
By Brooke Borel (University of Chicago Press)
