Seeing is believing. Yet the act of seeing rests on faith that the light reaching our eyes corresponds to something real. Faith that the brain is presenting a trustworthy version of the world. Vision begins with photons bouncing from objects into the eye, where the retina translates them into streams of electrical impulses. These signals [...]
Free speech and the free press were considered so vitally important to our founders that the very First Amendment in the Bill of Rights stated: “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” They enshrined this principle first because they knew a functioning democracy requires informed citizens capable of questioning [...]
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