Just before the end of this year, I wrote a small essay - an interjection, really - on the concept “post-truth” and its German counterpart “postfaktisch”. Both have been voted as the “word of the year 2016”, and both favour a diagnosis of the present that is as unhistorica as it is politically misleading. It has been published (in German only) on Soziopolis: https://www.soziopolis.de/postfaktisch.html.