About the book
What this book is about.
Human life depends on truth. Trust, justice, love, safety, freedom, knowledge and accountability collapse when reality can be ignored without consequence.
Yet people do not resist truth only because they are dishonest. We resist it when reality threatens identity, belonging, comfort, certainty, status, money, faith or power. Institutions can do the same thing at scale.
The Truth We Cannot Face moves through private life, public power, technology, spirituality, mortality and the mysteries evidence cannot settle, arguing for truth without arrogance, scepticism without cynicism, faith without false certainty, and honesty without cruelty.