Before the coffee gets cold, remember that silence in the face of falsehood is not neutrality — it's a decision, and it has a cost. This week's Finding Truth explores why calling out lies and moral wrongs is an act of respect, not rudeness, and how to hold the line without losing your integrity in the process.

Polls and surveys can reveal what people believe, but they can also be designed to shape what people believe. In this Finding Truth coffee conversation, Cletus Taylor explains how loaded questions, selective sampling, answer scales, timing, and headline framing can turn public opinion into packaged persuasion—and how A Student of Truth can spot the difference.

Pull up a chair. Today’s coffee chat is about claims, counterclaims, court rulings, primary upsets, and why truth usually needs more time than the news cycle is willing to give it. Some political stories are born complicated. Election stories are usually born complicated, raised by suspicion, sent to school in campaign season, and then shoved into a headline before they have even found their shoes. That is not a criticism of reporters trying to make sense of a loud public squ

A republic is in trouble when honest disagreement starts sounding like a crime. This Finding Truth reflection explores why questioning power is not a threat to America, but one of the ways citizens help keep the republic alive.

Every now and then, a story comes along that makes anyone who calls themselves a student of truth pause for a minute. Not just to react to the headline, but to sit with it. To ask what it means today, what it could become tomorrow, and what kind of responsibility comes with knowing. This week, that story is about autonomous weapons, or “killer robots,” as the headline writers like to call them. According to New Scientist, drone-maker Alexander Kokhanovskyy said a one-time Ukr

If you’ve ever found yourself wondering why smart, thoughtful people can hold so tightly to beliefs that don’t seem to stand up to much scrutiny, you’re definitely not alone. It’s one of those deeply human things. Emotion, especially strong emotion like fear, anger, or hate, can move a lot faster than logic, evidence, and sometimes even our own better judgment. And when someone questions a belief that’s tied to those emotions, we usually don’t respond in the calm, measured wa