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November 2008

November 3: Falsehood, Truth

On the eve of the presidential elections in the United States, this little observation is not, I think, out of place. Some time back a Portuguese politician, then in government, said to anyone prepared to listen that politics is primarily the art of not telling the truth. The worst thing was that after he said it there wasn’t, as far as I know, a single politician, left or right, who corrected him, saying absolutely not, truth should be the first and last aim of politics, for the simple reason that this is the only way that both can be saved—truth saved by politics, and politics saved by truth.