Co-editors Jeremy Elkins and Andrew Norris have decided to tackle difficult questions about the role of truth in politics in their new volume, Truth and Democracy (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012).  As they note in their own contributions to the volume, "American political culture is deeply ambivalent about truth."

The publisher's release notes, "The essays in this volume question whether democratic politics requires discussion of truth and, if so, how truth should matter to democratic politics. While individual essays approach the subject from different angles, the volume as a whole suggests that the character of our politics depends in part on what kinds of truthful inquiries it promotes and how it deals with various kinds of disputes about truth."

Jeremy Elkins is Associate Professor of Political Science and Affiliated Professor of Philosophy at Bryn Mawr College.

Andrew Norris is Associate Professor of Political Science and Affiliated Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara.