David Ignatius

A U.S. columnist quoted in Faith is Not Blind (by Bruce C. Hafen and Marie K. Hafen) on the modern epistemic crisis. The Hafens cite Ignatius for the worry that “people don’t seem to know what’s true anymore” — about everything from climate change and “allegations about people we like [or] don’t like” to the “political polarization” now infecting “every area of our common life — including sports.” His observation that “social media can be tools of deception as well as truth” anchors the book’s framing of a culture that has lost a shared sense of truth, the backdrop against which the Hafens argue for faith held in tension with honest doubt.

Context: David Ignatius is a longtime foreign-affairs columnist for The Washington Post and a novelist known for espionage thrillers.

Where this appears

• Faith is Not Blind — quoted on the loss of a shared sense of truth and social media as a tool of both deception and truth