ROGER KIMBALL: The Assault On Truth Continues. “If you take certain positions, you will be cast into outer darkness. Whether your statements are empirically accurate is irrelevant. . . . Even worse is the metastasis of this freedom- and truth-blighting habit of mendacity. Increasingly, this sort of craven doublethink has oozed out of the academy and into the corridors of business, the media, and culture at large. Where will it end?”