We are supposed to live in a post-truth world — I have said so myself, and more than once. What does that mean? Basically, that trust in our interpreters of truth — the elites, the mediating class, ...

In the wake of administrative upheaval for federal health and safety departments, former National Institutes of Health director and geneticist Francis Collins is coming to Spokane to discuss the ...

Just as America roils and frets over the election of a divisive and power-hungry president, a new book charts a path back to civility and commonality of interests. The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, ...

Editor's note: This essay was originally published in Discourse magazine. We are supposed to live in a post-truth world—I have said so myself, and more than once. What does that mean? Basically, that ...

Dr. Collins is a former director of the National Institutes of Health and the author of “The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust,” from which this essay is adapted. See more of our ...

Throughout history, humans have been on a search for truth. From the ancient Greeks and their belief in a universal truth, to our Founding Fathers writing, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, ...

POPE Leo XIV’s remarks to members of the board of the Vatican Observatory Foundation last May 11 addressed a growing concern shared by scientists, technologists and philosophers alike: modern ...

Modern shared threat: Pope Leo XIV said both religion and science now face the denial of objective truth as their most insidious challenge. Environmental duty: He stressed shared teachings on caring ...

Pope Leo XIV, in a message to participants of an international bioethics conference, issued a call for scientists to ‘contribute to the search for truth, so that science may remain at the service of ...

Eleanor P. Wiesler ’25, a Crimson Editorial editor, is an Applied Mathematics concentrator in Eliot House. “Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical ...