Behind every breakthrough, there is a quest for truth. This desire is wired into humans—an insatiable curiosity about the ...

The truth was center stage at two very different public events last week. One was an announcement by Mark Zuckerberg’s social media empire, and the other was the funeral of President Jimmy Carter.

I have two objectives in this paper. The first is to investigate whether, and to what extent, truth is valuable. I do this by first isolating the value question from other normative questions. Second, ...