As an English professor, I repeatedly tell my students that metaphors matter. In the context of media technologies, evocative metaphors may be the most potent way to raise our awareness regarding a ...

Praise be to The Santa Fe New Mexican for its ongoing commitment to report truths and the uncertainties connected to those truths (“The truth can prevail, but it will take work,” Our View, Jan. 1).

The most adept deceivers often don't present any of those signs and, further, the average observer's tendency to rely on such visual cues impedes their ability to tell when someone is lying. But those ...

Ilan Nass is a digital marketing strategist and the founder & Chief Revenue Officer of Taktical Digital, a performance marketing agency. Welcome to the attention economy—a modern-day Plato's cave ...

The Critical Issues Symposium at Hope College will explore “Discerning Truth in a World of Uncertainty” on Wednesday, Sept. 27, considering strategies and challenges for sorting fact from fiction in a ...

When I was a kid, I liked the game show To Tell the Truth. Four celebrity panelists would ask probing questions of three contestants to determine who really was the interesting person the show’s host ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. According to Webster's Dictionary, truth is that which is true or in accordance with fact or ...

When teaching my senior seminar at Hope College, I gave the assignment of writing a paper selecting one of two titles: “I am a Seeker of Truth” or “I am a Child of God.” I explained that these are not ...

I sometimes wonder if some of my fellow Americans have lost their ability to objectively look at what is going on in our country. Do they read their history and see parallels in the vitriol being ...