“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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
At a time when America’s education policymakers have nominally embraced the idea of tying school reform to “scientifically based research,” many of the nation’s most influential reports are little ...
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 ...