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 ...

The idea is a merger of pop culture with academics. In pop culture, “truthiness” refers facetiously to the feeling of something being true, independent of its actual truth value (a term coined by late ...

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 — ...

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 ...

In the 1950s television series Dragnet, Jack Webb in the role of Los Angeles police detective Joe Friday often utter the now iconic words "All we want are the facts, ma’am.” During a press interview, ...

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. ...