The Oxford English Dictionary named “post-truth” its 2016 international word of the year in a fittingly political race that featured terms like “alt-right,” “Brexiteer” and “woke,” The New York Times ...
The basic definition of "truth," according to Merriam-Webster's handy dictionary, is "the body of real things, events and facts." But what does that actually mean? Next week, On Point will air a ...
Every so-called truth finally expresses no more than the power of some individual or group to impose its view of things on everyone else. So runs a common strain of postmodernist thinking. In the more ...