Exaggeration and Denial

CR101 Radio - Podcast Network · May 29, 2026 · 3m

In “Exaggeration and Denial” (Chalcedon Report No. 422), Rushdoony argues that modern relativism, grounded in the myth of neutrality, has corrupted truth by treating all claims as morally equivalent and by forcing the media to give equal weight to unequal realities. This false balance produces a destructive cycle in which facts are exaggerated to provoke outrage or denied to blunt moral judgment, all under the guise of objectivity. He insists that the twentieth century’s vast record of mass murder by Turks, Nazis, and Communists cannot honestly be disputed, yet modern consciences, numbed by…