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 ...

This commentary was written by CBSNews.com's Dick Meyer. My annual "Award of the Year" goes to Merriam-Webster, the dictionary guys, for giving their "Word of the Year Award" to the word "truthiness." ...

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 ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. When it comes to the use of words, people (and dictionaries) generally fall into two camps: They use words the way they were ...

In 2005 Harry Frankfurt republished a wonderful philosophical essay, 'On Bullshit', which became a bestseller. In the same year Stephen Colbert introduced a new word to us, 'Truthiness', which Merriam ...

First “Fake News,” now “Truthiness.” The publisher of Jon Stewart’s million-selling “America (The Book)” is releasing a book by Stephen Colbert. “This book will have the same noble goal as my ...

I owe Sinn Féin an apology. I have been judging the handling of child sexual abuse by the wrong standard. Like many equally mistaken people, I've been asking for truth. But the proper standard is not ...

Stephen Colbert, the American comedian, coined the word ‘truthiness’ to refer to arguments not based on fact but what we want to be true. He famously said: "It used to be, everyone was entitled to ...

This article is part of an ongoing series from the Post-Truth Initiative, a Strategic Research Excellence Initiative at the University of Sydney. The series examines today’s post-truth problem in ...