Feature interview: swapping out the will to be ignorant

Facts aren't fickle, but sometimes people are. We like to 'be in the know' but we also like to choose the facts we believe and those we don't says Mark Lilla is professor of the humanities at Columbia University. He says humans have a unique ability to hide from certain truths, swapping the will to know with the will to remain ignorant. His new book is an invitation to end playing hide and seek with ourselves and embrace critical thinking. The book is called Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know."