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Harvard Gazette / Brett Milano / Feb 24, 2020

“But I think this is a misreading of what ails democracy. There is a difference between factual truth, and what we might call moral or spiritual truth. The reason we disagree about facts is because we disagree about the underlying moral and political questions — not the other way around,” Michael Sandel said.

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