Does it matter? The truth, I mean; does it matter?

Eric Olson spent his adult life trying to learn the truth about his father’s death because he believed the truth matters, not just because it was his father who died, but because shadowy figures in the national security state had him murdered. Did the truth about the CIA’s murder of a loyal American matter? Does it?

In Canada in 2021, journalist Terry Glavin reported truths he believed mattered. The New York Times and many Canadian news outlets had just reported the discovery of mass graves on the premises of former state schools for indigenous children, presumably those of children who died while in residence there. At first, 215 such graves were reported, but soon the number ballooned to over 1,000. Those shocking reports were followed by a nationwide orgy of recriminations against the white Europeans who’d established the indigenous schools.