From a trip to the library comes reflections on authority, facts, and where we go from here, writes Tom Montgomery Fate.

Often there is little difference, if any, between the paper posted to a preprint ... And online news stories that later appear in the print magazine are fact-checked before they are published ...

This added to the 250,000 subscribers who canceled when Bezos blocked the paper’s editorial endorsing ... s time to remember how to read the news in print, and how to respond in person.