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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” – Henry David Thoreau. What is truth? So asked Pontius Pilate of Christ (John 18:38). It is a question that one hears in different forms today ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This was the question Pontius Pilate famously asked Jesus of Nazareth nearly two thousand years ago. Pilate was deeply uncomfortable with the objective truth claims made by Jesus and wanted to dismiss ...

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 ...

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 ...

The peace or lack of peace one feels after praying about a decision can be highly subjective, unless it is specifically rooted in objective truths. Some people feel good about doing wrong things and ...