Joseph L. DeVitis is a retired professor of social foundations of education and higher education. A prolific scholar and public intellectual, he is the recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

• Chapter 1. Wild Ways of the Mind in Post-Truth America; Joseph L. DeVitis Chapter 2. Truth Is Both Real and Socially Constructed; Delores D. Liston Chapter 3. The Post-Truth Transformation of Higher Educatiom; Daniel R. DeNicola Chapter 4. Climate Change, Disinformation, and the Humanities-Based Inoculation against Zombie Ideas; Lawrence Torcello Chapter 5. God-intoxicated Men and the Making of Miracles and Medicine; Eric Smaw and Mark Chaet Chapter 6. Tageted Harassment of Faculty in the Post-Truth Era; Nina M. Flores Chapter 7. Iconoclasts among the Cornfields: The Right-Wing Assault on Freedom of Expression in Indiana Higher Education; Joanna SwangerChapter 8. Building the Third American Republic and Overcoming Post-Truth Politics; Richard Guarasci Chapter 9. Reactionary Politics and Republican Supermajorities: Post-Truth Education in Tennessee in the 2020s; Zachary A. Casey Chapter 10. Progress to Privatization: The Curious Case of Education Reform in Arkansas, 1993-2024; Blake S. Rutherford Chapter 11. Examining Educational Intimidation Bills in Missouri; Fighting for inclusion, equity and Justice; Tian Yu Chapter 12. Weaponizing Multiple Perspectives: Post-Truth in Texas Schools; Liz Harrelson Magill and Kevin R. Magill Chapter 13. Between Hegemonies: Power and Truth in Oklahoma Education; Jenny Sperling, Caleb Creed, and Quan Phan Chapter 14. Standing in a Raging River: How Post-Truth Carves Idaho’s Socio-Cultural Landscape; Kevin M. Talbert Chapter 15. From Inclusion to Exclusion: How Post-Truth Restrictions In Utah Undermine Education for Democracy; Steven P. Camicia Chapter 16. Manufactured Hysteria: Gender, Sex, Sexuality, and Parent Rights in Florida; Jessica Heybach and Adrienne Sulma Chapter 17. Countering False Narratives in U. S. Higher Education: Pragmatist Pedagogies of Resistance in Post-Truth Florida; L. Ryan Musgrave

Education is a perennial source of power that ignites talent, imagination, and frees the mind. This book reveals the harsh consequences of post-truth tactics used by those who fear the power and potential of education. Chapters display the ways objectivity, reason, and evidence are manufactured into a post-truth form of currency. In the post-truth landscape, these authors offer concrete examples of meanings being manipulated to constrain free thinking. DeVitis and colleagues exhibit bravery, revealing details that could make themselves targets of those who optimize post-truth for their own gain. Readers will be shocked but empowered - having finally found words to describe the shifting winds that educators, students, and communities have been sensing as the storms in education keep growing increasingly intense.

Joseph L. DeVitis is a retired professor of social foundations of education and higher education. A prolific scholar and public intellectual, he is the recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

• Chapter 1. Wild Ways of the Mind in Post-Truth America; Joseph L. DeVitis Chapter 2. Truth Is Both Real and Socially Constructed; Delores D. Liston Chapter 3. The Post-Truth Transformation of Higher Educatiom; Daniel R. DeNicola Chapter 4. Climate Change, Disinformation, and the Humanities-Based Inoculation against Zombie Ideas; Lawrence Torcello Chapter 5. God-intoxicated Men and the Making of Miracles and Medicine; Eric Smaw and Mark Chaet Chapter 6. Tageted Harassment of Faculty in the Post-Truth Era; Nina M. Flores Chapter 7. Iconoclasts among the Cornfields: The Right-Wing Assault on Freedom of Expression in Indiana Higher Education; Joanna SwangerChapter 8. Building the Third American Republic and Overcoming Post-Truth Politics; Richard Guarasci Chapter 9. Reactionary Politics and Republican Supermajorities: Post-Truth Education in Tennessee in the 2020s; Zachary A. Casey Chapter 10. Progress to Privatization: The Curious Case of Education Reform in Arkansas, 1993-2024; Blake S. Rutherford Chapter 11. Examining Educational Intimidation Bills in Missouri; Fighting for inclusion, equity and Justice; Tian Yu Chapter 12. Weaponizing Multiple Perspectives: Post-Truth in Texas Schools; Liz Harrelson Magill and Kevin R. Magill Chapter 13. Between Hegemonies: Power and Truth in Oklahoma Education; Jenny Sperling, Caleb Creed, and Quan Phan Chapter 14. Standing in a Raging River: How Post-Truth Carves Idaho’s Socio-Cultural Landscape; Kevin M. Talbert Chapter 15. From Inclusion to Exclusion: How Post-Truth Restrictions In Utah Undermine Education for Democracy; Steven P. Camicia Chapter 16. Manufactured Hysteria: Gender, Sex, Sexuality, and Parent Rights in Florida; Jessica Heybach and Adrienne Sulma Chapter 17. Countering False Narratives in U. S. Higher Education: Pragmatist Pedagogies of Resistance in Post-Truth Florida; L. Ryan Musgrave

Education is a perennial source of power that ignites talent, imagination, and frees the mind. This book reveals the harsh consequences of post-truth tactics used by those who fear the power and potential of education. Chapters display the ways objectivity, reason, and evidence are manufactured into a post-truth form of currency. In the post-truth landscape, these authors offer concrete examples of meanings being manipulated to constrain free thinking. DeVitis and colleagues exhibit bravery, revealing details that could make themselves targets of those who optimize post-truth for their own gain. Readers will be shocked but empowered - having finally found words to describe the shifting winds that educators, students, and communities have been sensing as the storms in education keep growing increasingly intense.

Joseph L. DeVitis is a retired professor of social foundations of education and higher education. A prolific scholar and public intellectual, he is the recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

• Chapter 1. Wild Ways of the Mind in Post-Truth America; Joseph L. DeVitis Chapter 2. Truth Is Both Real and Socially Constructed; Delores D. Liston Chapter 3. The Post-Truth Transformation of Higher Educatiom; Daniel R. DeNicola Chapter 4. Climate Change, Disinformation, and the Humanities-Based Inoculation against Zombie Ideas; Lawrence Torcello Chapter 5. God-intoxicated Men and the Making of Miracles and Medicine; Eric Smaw and Mark Chaet Chapter 6. Tageted Harassment of Faculty in the Post-Truth Era; Nina M. Flores Chapter 7. Iconoclasts among the Cornfields: The Right-Wing Assault on Freedom of Expression in Indiana Higher Education; Joanna SwangerChapter 8. Building the Third American Republic and Overcoming Post-Truth Politics; Richard Guarasci Chapter 9. Reactionary Politics and Republican Supermajorities: Post-Truth Education in Tennessee in the 2020s; Zachary A. Casey Chapter 10. Progress to Privatization: The Curious Case of Education Reform in Arkansas, 1993-2024; Blake S. Rutherford Chapter 11. Examining Educational Intimidation Bills in Missouri; Fighting for inclusion, equity and Justice; Tian Yu Chapter 12. Weaponizing Multiple Perspectives: Post-Truth in Texas Schools; Liz Harrelson Magill and Kevin R. Magill Chapter 13. Between Hegemonies: Power and Truth in Oklahoma Education; Jenny Sperling, Caleb Creed, and Quan Phan Chapter 14. Standing in a Raging River: How Post-Truth Carves Idaho’s Socio-Cultural Landscape; Kevin M. Talbert Chapter 15. From Inclusion to Exclusion: How Post-Truth Restrictions In Utah Undermine Education for Democracy; Steven P. Camicia Chapter 16. Manufactured Hysteria: Gender, Sex, Sexuality, and Parent Rights in Florida; Jessica Heybach and Adrienne Sulma Chapter 17. Countering False Narratives in U. S. Higher Education: Pragmatist Pedagogies of Resistance in Post-Truth Florida; L. Ryan Musgrave

Education is a perennial source of power that ignites talent, imagination, and frees the mind. This book reveals the harsh consequences of post-truth tactics used by those who fear the power and potential of education. Chapters display the ways objectivity, reason, and evidence are manufactured into a post-truth form of currency. In the post-truth landscape, these authors offer concrete examples of meanings being manipulated to constrain free thinking. DeVitis and colleagues exhibit bravery, revealing details that could make themselves targets of those who optimize post-truth for their own gain. Readers will be shocked but empowered - having finally found words to describe the shifting winds that educators, students, and communities have been sensing as the storms in education keep growing increasingly intense.