Trump’s anti-truth crusade is not just an attack on facts – it’s an unravelling of the Enlightenment
- Posted on October 17, 2025
- By The Guardian
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Trump’s anti-truth crusade is not just an attack on facts – it’s an unravelling of the Enlightenment

The US president, JD Vance and Nigel Farage seem to believe that checking facts is a form of censorship. Nonsense: speech is only free when it is anchored in truth, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee