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 ...

In a shocking disclosure revealed by Alison Flood in the Guardian this week, the most venerable of dictionaries, the Oxford English, may be embroiled in quite the scandal. Or is it? From Flood, ...

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 ...