The speaker, Katherine Maher, is the current CEO of NPR. She WAS the CEO of Wikimedia Foundation
The intellectual arrogance exposed by this masturbatory musings over "truth" is simply breathtaking. The left knows that if he can control the premise, if it can control definitions, it can control the answers. So the left dresses up its manipulations with a contrived Ivy League verbiage that sets them apart from ordinary humans and disguises their ultimate intent- and immunizes them from accusations of rank power lust.
If one examines how our universities operate, a similar pattern is revealed.