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Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification
Kuran, Timur. Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Why this matters here
Kuran’s Private Truths, Public Lies theorizes preference falsification: the gap between what people privately hold and what they publicly display, and how falsified displays become social facts that keep others falsifying. When Interpretation No Longer Matters reads Soviet meeting pressure through that mechanism without needing the term on the floor—extreme costs for disagreement sustain a public surface that no longer reports private judgment. The source models cascading falsification; the book asks what applause means when honesty has been priced out of speech.
