Trusting Institutions: A Foolish Pursuit

What do we do when institutional lying becomes the norm?

I was supposed to go to the National Conservatism conference in London this week, but the fractured collarbone thing nixed that. Nevertheless, I’ve kept up with the event by reading the media accounts, and also participating in a Signal chat with some friends who are there. They have been marveling at the distance between what has actually been said fro…