Glavin: Trump didn't kill truth, but it's dead just the same

It is a rare thing in the hyper-partisan cacophony of the current Trumpian moment that a comprehensible and honest American accounting presents itself that makes some clear sense of the cultural pathologies that have led directly to the dystopian abyss where the world’s liberal democracies are now perilously teetering.
That’s what’s on offer from Michiko Kakutani, after more than 30 years as the New York Times‘ chief book critic, in her just-published book, The Death of T