On Bullshit: Princeton's Harry Frankfurt offers a timely reflection on the nature of BS, which he defines as a "lack of connection to a concern with truth — this indifference to how things really are — that I regard as of the essence of bullshit." So begins his essay:

One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon has not aroused much deliberate concern, or attracted much sustained inquiry. In consequence, we have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, why there is so much of it, or what functions it serves. And we lack a conscientiously developed appreciation of what it means to us. In other words, we have no theory. I propose to begin the development of a theoretical understanding of bullshit, mainly by providing some tentative and exploratory philosophical analysis...

Full essay here. (Via Cursor.)