From data science to fact checking we talk today about the pursuit of objective and indisputable “truth.” Whether through the dogged work of human fact checkers chasing down references and reviewing ...

“Orthodoxy” doesn’t matter. And it hasn’t for decades. It has become a word foreign to modern ears, an idea meaningless to modern minds, a body of practical ideas and principles with no real ...

When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, soon to be elected Pope Benedict XVI, memorably warned of a looming "dictatorship of relativism" in 2005, he articulated what many conservative Catholics had long ...

In a recent interview, Attorney General William Barr said of the dominant news media: They are projecting a narrative. When the word ‘narrative’ came into currency, I knew we were in trouble, because ...

Before Sally Yates addressed a room full of librarians and library workers at the Public Library Association (PLA) Conference in Philadelphia, she did her usual Google research. She found quotes on ...

I was disappointed by Michael P. Lynch’s “Who Cares About the Truth?” (The Chronicle Review, September 10). The essay seemed to me to be both misguided and wasted on your audience. I am confident that ...

Whenever someone asks me why media coverage of President Trump is so negative — and it is, irrefutably — I respond with some version of this: There is a fundamental disconnect between reporters and ...

A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: Sharing the Good News has become far more difficult in an era where feelings matter more than facts and secularized cultural elites see religion as a threat. But the Truth ...

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I must admit that the term “personal truth” was alien to me when I first heard it a decade or so ago. My education held truth to be objective and independent of personal beliefs. Truth was regarded as ...