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On March 19, journalist and author Jane Mayer visited campus to deliver the 2019 Wilson Lecture. Her talk, “Fake News and Alternative Facts: The War on Truth in Politics and Academia,” was followed by a Q&A led by Stacie Goddard, professor of political science, and Irene Mata, Barbara Morris Caspersen Associate Professor of Humanities and associate professor of women’s and gender studies.
Mayer was the Wall Street Journal’s first woman White House correspondent, is a best-selling author, and currently serves as the chief Washington correspondent for the New Yorker, where she covers politics, culture, and national security. Throughout her career, Mayer has worked to shed light on controversial issues.