What is truth in municipalities? Especially in small town politics, where lack of honesty can become the degraded-ethos, unchallenged norm. It seems that half-truths, exaggerations, and the ...

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 ...

When winning means sacrificing truth: a candidate’s reckoning with integrity and disinformation. What happens when victory comes at the expense of truth? In this hypothetical scenario, one candidate ...

In an episode of the drama House M.D., the patient at the center of the medical mystery is a brilliant physicist who has intentionally made himself dumber.