Post-truth—the relatively recent explosion of political culture in which debate is framed by appeals to emotion—is disconnected from objective information or the details of policy. It involves repeated, unverified assertions, and increasingly conspiracies, to which factual rebuttals are ignored, compelling people to believe something regardless of evidence. This course attempts to answer the following questions: Is post-truth political spin, wishful thinking, mass myth, conspiracy-thinking, art of evasion, bullshit, or simply lying based on “fake news” and “alternative facts”? How do instances of post-truth differ from previous examples of political and other types of lying? What makes all these post-truth-related phenomena different from past political manipulations—including that of propaganda—is communicative abundance. In this new era, Marshall McLuhan’s famous formula – “The Medium is the Message,” distributed in a “global village” without restraint—has reached a new level of boundlessness. The message is based on a deliverer’s whim and itself becomes the medium. In this course, we will investigate how post-truth politics has manifested itself in various political cultures: the USA, France, India, China, Russia, Turkey, and elsewhere.