Quickly read (and apparently quickly written/published) screed against the siloes of "alternative facts" tailored to meet our political beliefs rather than reflect reality. Relying heavily on some usual suspects (e.g., Orwell, Arendt) as well as some unexpected ones (eg., Postman), Kakutani presents a cogent argument for the importance, indeed necessity, of truth-telling (primarily though not exclusively in a free press) for democracy. If she sometimes appears one-sidedly anti-Republican and anti-Trump, it's because, as her book makes abundantly clear, Republicans and Trump himself are the main culprits undermining the very foundations of American democracy and governance. Recommended reading.