As never before, a lack of respect for the truth is shocking in public life, but there's a truth gap that has nothing to do with facts versus lies in politics. Rather, it has to do with how we verify ...

We not only desire but need truth. We want to know, communicate, utilize, and be comfortable with the truth. It would make our world, lives, and decisions simpler and more effective. We are constantly ...

At some of those same schools, students are forced to learn "alternative ways of knowing" and indigenous health practices. While understanding different cultural beliefs is important to the ...

Beginning in the mid-20th century, Western intellectuals began dismantling the concept of objective truth. Postmodern philosophy insisted that truth is relative, that everyone has their own version of ...

Bob Dylan has a lyric that goes, “Man is inventing his doom/ First step was touching the moon,” but I think it goes back much further than that; at least to Albert Einstein and his pesky theory of ...

On June 8, 1978, Nobel Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn ascended to the podium at Harvard University and delivered a commencement address that was the perfect antithesis of political correctness. Being ...

It’s an irony of our present moment that we have access to more information than any other civilization in history, yet we often can’t seem to be able to sift consensual truth out of this infinite ...

In his booklet Absolute Truth, Mark Ashton tells the following story about a professor who demonstrates that moral relativism is unlivable: Roger Wengert, a philosophy professor at the University of ...

American institutions are suffering from a collapse in public support. Among the institutions worst affected are government, the press and education. One could be forgiven for believing that ...