From Trump's 'make America great again' to Johnson's 'build back better', performative politicians use The Making Sense to persuade their public audiences. Law 'makers' do it too. A courtroom trial is a 'truth factory' in which facts are not discovered but made. The 'court of popular opinion' is another truth factory, but its processes are often flawed and its products faulty. Where courts of law aim to make civil peace, 'trial by Twitter' makes civil strife. Even in the mainstream media, headlines are 'made up' for public consumption, so that all news is to some extent 'fake news'. In a world of making, how can we separate the craft from the craftiness? With insights from disciplines including, law, politics, rhetoric, media studies, psychology, sociology, and performance studies, The Making Sense of Politics, Media, and Law offers a new way to make sense of controversies from transgender identity to cancel culture. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.