'Pursuing Factual Consensus' focus of Levin Center webinar

The Carl Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy will offer a webinar on “Pursuing Factual Consensus: What Does ‘Truth’ Mean in the Public Square?” Thursday, May 19, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. via Zoom.

For the U.S. democratic system to work, public and private institutions, public officials, and citizens need to value facts and truthfulness. But recent years have witnessed mass disagreements over what is true and how to separate fact from fiction. The discussion “Pursuing Factual Consensus: What Does ‘Truth’ Mean in the Public Square?” will delve more deeply into how facts become established in the public mind and how truthfulness might be restored to public discourse.

Levin Center Director Jim Townsend will moderate the panel that will feature Jonathan Rauch, senior fellow, Brookings Institution; Marc Hetherington, professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Yanna Krupnikov, professor of Political Science, Stony Brook University.

To register for the free online discussion, visit https://levin-center.org. Anyone with questions may email the Levin Center at levincenter@wayne.edu.