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 ...

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 ...

The contemporary Church suffers from the same strange malady that is afflicting all of contemporary society: the denial of objective moral truth. There is also an almost Promethean trust in the human ...

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 ...

An Ivy League biology professor is sounding the alarm on how critical race theory curricula is erasing the meaning and even existence of "objective truth" from classrooms and teaching a generation of ...

“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 ...

Lately, the local ABC News affiliate in Washington, D.C., has been running promotional spots with the well-worn tagline “speaking truth to power.” That is an odd slogan for a media outlet that can ...

In the past few weeks, Uri Berliner, a 25-year veteran of NPR, blew the whistle on the state-funded media giant’s pervasive liberal bias. In response, NPR’s new CEO, Katherine Maher, suspended the ...

In a key moment of the final 2016 Trump-Clinton presidential debate, Donald Trump turned to a question regarding Russian president Vladimir Putin: “He has no respect for her,” Trump said, pointing at ...

Efforts to differentiate between fact and fiction are going out of style. First X got rid of the hardy folks who had to sift through endless crap so that you, the consumer, didn't have to. Now, it's ...

One of the toughest things for our side is getting it through our skulls that our opponents are not like us. We assume everybody is like us. We assume everybody is interested in objective truth. We ...