Many people have called what we’re living through an epistemological crisis, and the most famous of them is probably Barack Obama, who told the Atlantic in 2020, “If we do not have the capacity to distinguish what’s true from what’s false, then by definition the marketplace of ideas doesn’t work. And by definition our democracy doesn’t work. We are entering into an epistemological crisis.” Maybe Obama is overstating things a tad when it comes to the implie