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 ...

“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 ...

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. ...

A decade ago, the dictionary people at Merriam-Webster performed a great public service by bestowing its “Word of the Year” award to “truthiness.” Truthiness has become one of my favorite words. It is ...

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 ...

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 — ...

Few people are immune to irrational fears and—like many others—I’m pretty scared of spiders. While I don’t experience the symptoms of a debilitating phobia, the unexpected sight of a creepy-crawly ...

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 ...