“Was Jonathan Edwards a hard-boiled egotist who had all the answers?” a passenger next to me asked as we recently flew from Chicago to Denver. He peered over my shoulder, noting I was reading a ...

The word truthiness was named Word of the Year for 2005 by the American Dialect Society. It was also recognized by the New York Times as one of nine words defining the spirit of the age. But in fact ...

Truthiness: A quality characterizing a “truth” that a person making an argument or assertion claims to know intuitively, “from the gut” or because it “feels right” without regard to evidence, logic, ...

We live in a dangerous world. Fortunately, we've got Stephen Colbert fighting on our side. Colbert defends America when lesser men cut and run. Got a problem with White House wiretapping? He doesn't. ...

Truth or truthiness? As I scientist I hope for truth. I hope we all evaluate evidence, determine the real true state of the world, and use that information to guide choices. Yeah right. I know better.

Leonard Pitts, Jr. posed a thought-provoking question in the Miami Herald last week – "When the history of this era is written, who’ll be to blame?" Although blaming the school system for not teaching ...

Remember back in 2006, when Stephen Colbert, the fictional conservative blowhard TV personality played by comedian Stephen Colbert, coined the term “truthiness” on his Comedy Central show “The Colbert ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) ” After 12 months of naked partisanship on Capitol Hill, on cable TV and in the blogosphere, the word of the year for 2006 is … “truthiness.” The word ” if one can call it that ...

When "The Colbert Report" premiered five years ago this week, we didn't quite know what to make of it. Sure, "The Word" segment, in which Stephen Colbert introduced the semi-neologism "truthiness," ...

I will later regret having ever typed these words, but here goes: Stephen Colbert was right. Truthiness reigns. Last year, the Comedy Central host eschewed truth for “truthiness”: that which might not ...

Humanities faculty member Annjeanette Wiese's book Narrative Truthiness: The Logic of Complex Truth in Hybrid (Non)Fiction releases October 1. Narrative Truthiness explores the complex nature of truth ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – After 12 months of naked partisanship on Capitol Hill, on cable TV and in the blogosphere, the word of the year for 2006 is ... "truthiness." The word — if one can call it that — ...