As John Adams once said, facts are stubborn things. No matter how the world dislikes them, they remain true. A lot of uncomfortable facts and inconvenient truths were thrown around the United Nations ...

The behavioral economist Daniel Kahneman has argued that people who are committed to a theory tend to dismiss inconvenient facts, preferring to believe that the facts are wrong rather than the theory.

We don’t have to look hard to see the rejection of inconvenient evidence, not only among the uneducated but often among the hyper-educated. One of the remarkable things about the current culture—both ...

Supporters of NATO’s war in Ukraine ignore inconvenient facts egregiously and repeatedly. Russia’s invasion is always described as “unprovoked,” when we did everything possible to cause this war. The ...

Re “Evidence keeps growing that city finances are in awful shape” (Feb. 28): Your editorial about the city’s “awful” finances contained significant math errors and outrageous false claims about City ...

Material reality, or kitchen table issues such as groceries and rent, shapes ideology and systemic thinking about the political economy of living and working. The current moment of social tumult has ...