Faking It from NYT Freakonomics Radio by freakonomics.podcast@gmail.com (Co-produced by American Public Media’s Marketplace® and WNYC.)

It’s not only our politicians who fake it. William Ian Miller, a law professor at the University of Michigan, admits that his own anxieties about teaching law led him to write the book Faking It. (He’s really a medieval historian.) This podcast features people who fake their religion, their political views – even their desire to have kids. That might sound terrible, but you have to ask: could society survive without lies like these?

Read the full NYT Freakonomics Radio feature here, and listen to their podcast. See also: Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime, The Anatomy of Disgust