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William Shakespeare wrote much about truth. “To thine own self be true,” he admonished us. “Truth will out,” he warned. “Honesty is the best policy. If I lose my honor, I lose myself,” he counseled. Yet, so many of us seem to fear the truth. We silence our voices. Why? Because it is easier, perhaps. Or, to put it more precisely, because it is less frightening in the moment than the alternative. We live in the age of cancel culture, after all, an era in which expressing an unp