by Karen Ives The movement toward a post-factual world and the rise of the concept of "alternative fact" is, for many educated Americans, frightening and strange. The concept of "alternative facts" found sustenance to flourish through, on the one hand, a need to adapt the ideas burgeoning in post-modern and critical theories to conservative perspectives and, on the other, a desire to incorporate alternate epistemologies in a social landscape dominated by science. [...]
