The Roman governor Pontius Pilate asked Jesus that question in John 18:38 after Jesus said he had come into the world to testify to the truth and that everyone on the side of truth listened to him.

“’You are a king, then!’ said Pilate. Jesus answered, ‘You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth ...

I’ve traveled some in my life (to about 15 different countries), having been to Europe and Asia, though never Africa, South America, or Australia. I’ve lived most of the last 15 years in Asia, spent a ...

The philosopher Hannah Arendt once dryly noted: “truth and politics are on rather bad terms with each other” (1961, p. 227) No kidding. Right now, truth and politics in the U.S. seem to be not only on ...

We find ourselves in the midst of a crisis of truth. Trust in public institutions of knowledge (schools, legacy media, universities and experts) is at an all-time low, and blatant liars are drawing ...

Bernard Duhaime is United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence, and Full Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law and ...

Meta recently announced that it would end its use of independent fact-checkers, initially decommissioning the system in the United States, and, perhaps after that, elsewhere across the world. 1 ...