The small town of Dharamshala, nestled in India's Himalayan foothills saw days of celebration in honour of the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday. It has been his home and seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile since he fled Tibet during the failed 1959 uprising against Chinese Communist rule. The Buddhist leader’s advancing age throws into stark relief the disagreement between the Chinese government and the Tibetan exiled leader about who has the right to identify the next incarnation of the Dalai Lama after his death. In a recorded message he affirms that his office holds ‘sole authority’ to do so. Tibetan Buddhism involves the belief in a circle of rebirth. An enlightened spiritual leader like the Dalai Lama is thought to be able to see his past and future incarnations and can, when death nears, choose the place and time of his rebirth. The Dalai Lama has stated that his successor, the 15th Dalai Lama, will be born in “the free world”. However, he hopes that this event is still a long time in the future, as he is hoping to live in his current incarnation to the age of 130. Jason Stanley, the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, has written extensively about fascism. Two of his books, How Propaganda Works (2015) and How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (2018), received much attention and have been translated into many languages. However, his most recent book Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future is arguably his most explosive philosophical study of current politics. An outspoken critic of the current US government, Stanley has said that "Fascism is what the Trump administration is now doing” and has now decided to go into exile to Toronto. He follows the example of Yale history professors Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore, a married couple, who joined Toronto University after the US presidential election. Snyder is an expert on Totalitarianism and the best-selling author of On Tyranny which details “America’s turn towards authoritarianism” under the first Trump presidency. So how do contemporary philosophers wrestle with practical questions of knowledge and its limits in an age of fake news and subjectivist post-truth rhetoric? We are delighted to include an interview with famous epistemologist Prof Susan Haack, who looks in particular at court cases to explore ideas about certainty and the limits of the knowable. Our current scientific knowledge is limited in all sorts of ways, but are there any limits in principle to human knowledge? In mathematics, Gödel’s famous Incompleteness Theorems demonstrate that there must be. McGranahan’s article unpacks this for us as he asks, as we all always should: What Would Wittgenstein Do? The small town of Dharamshala, nestled in India’s Himalayan foothills saw days of celebration in honour of the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday. It has been his home and seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile since he fled Tibet during the failed 1959 uprising against Chinese Communist rule. The Buddhist leader’s advancing age throws into stark relief the disagreement between the Chinese government and the Tibetan exiled leader about who has the right to identify the next incarnation of the Dalai Lama after his death. In a recorded message he affirms that his office holds ‘sole authority’ to do so. Tibetan Buddhism involves the belief in a circle of rebirth. An enlightened spiritual leader like the Dalai Lama is thought to be able to see his past and future incarnations and can, when death nears, choose the place and time of his rebirth. The Dalai Lama has stated that his successor, the 15th Dalai Lama, will be born in “the free world”. However, he hopes that this event is still a long time in the future, as he is hoping to live in his current incarnation to the age of 130. Jason Stanley, the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, has written extensively about fascism. Two of his books, How Propaganda Works (2015) and How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (2018), received much attention and have been translated into many languages. However, his most recent book Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future is arguably his most explosive philosophical study of current politics. An outspoken critic of the current US government, Stanley has said that "Fascism is what the Trump administration is now doing” and has now decided to go into exile to Toronto. He follows the example of Yale history professors Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore, a married couple, who joined Toronto University after the US presidential election. Snyder is an expert on Totalitarianism and the best-selling author of On Tyranny which details “America’s turn towards authoritarianism” under the first Trump presidency. So how do contemporary philosophers wrestle with practical questions of knowledge and its limits in an age of fake news and subjectivist post-truth rhetoric? We are delighted to include an interview with famous epistemologist Prof Susan Haack, who looks in particular at court cases to explore ideas about certainty and the limits of the knowable. Our current scientific knowledge is limited in all sorts of ways, but are there any limits in principle to human knowledge? In mathematics, Gödel’s famous Incompleteness Theorems demonstrate that there must be. McGranahan’s article unpacks this for us as he asks, as we all always should: What Would Wittgenstein Do?