Why Defending America’s National Security Requires Calculus and Critical Thinking While politicians and big tech descend the slippery slope of censoring news and opinion, often inconsistently so, there is little attention to how to enable Americans to read more critically. Relying on government or corporate censorship automatically erodes liberty. There is a perfect storm in America. “Fake news,” perhaps the greatest linguistic contribution Donald Trump has made to the English language during his presidency, continues to drive political polarization. The problem, of course, is that partisans differ about what is fake. Polemics trump analysis and, in an age of 24/7 cable news and almost instantaneous social media, few both to analyze the statistics driving arguments.