Authenticity

By Frederic Jennings, Resilience.org

Why is it that “authenticity” must be stressed and supported? What is it in our culture that makes honesty special – in need of vital resuscitation? Does no one else see it as strange?

Hannah Arendt and the politics of truth

By Samantha Rose Hill, Open Democracy

Truth isn’t political. If anything it is anti-political, since historically it has often been positioned against politics. Truth-tellers have always stood outside the political realm as the object of collective scorn.