Today at the 42nd Street branch of the New York Public Library is hosting, There You Go Again: Orwell Comes to America, a symposium for historians, linguists, cognitive experts, journalists, government officials, and political consultants to assess the current state of public discourse — and journalism’s response to it — one year before a hotly contested presidential election.

The panels explore the past, present, and future of deceptive political speech, and assess what can be done to bring more realism and honesty into the conduct of America’s public affairs.

New York Public Library
Celeste Bartos Forum
Humanities and Social Sciences Library
5th Avenue and 42nd Street

Hosted by Live from the NYPL
www.nypl.org/live