In ‘White Lotus,’ Beauty and Truth Are All Mixed Up This season focuses on the willful delusion of the wealthy — and how easily preyed upon people who evade reality can be.
Can This Man Stop Lying? Christopher Massimine, whose compulsive lying derailed a promising career in theater, maintains that it’s a mental illness that has dogged him since childhood.
The Inside Joke That Became Trump’s Big Lie The lie that Trump won the 2020 election has grown so powerful because it is yoked to an older deception: the idea that American politics is a joke.
Should I Have Lied to Help My Kid Brother Get Vaccinated? The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on what we gain from making hard choices.