Description: A timely meditation on the key role the humanities must play in dissecting and combatting all forms of disinformation. Castillo and Egginton offer a tour-de-force commentary on politics and popular culture through critical comparative readings of Western cultural texts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and those of the Spanish Golden Age.
Brief description: David Castillo is professor of Spanish literature and cultural studies and director of the Humanities Institute at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Review Quotes: "This book comes at the hour of greatest need. It demonstrates unequivocally the relevance of Cervantes and the Spanish Baroque to our present predicament. Forget POTUS, FLOTUS, and SCOTUS! Only Castillo and Egginton can save us!" William P. Childers, Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center