Freedom of expression should be a great facilitator of truth-telling. Unfortunately, the one doesn’t necessarily follow the other. Free expression also facilitates the dissemination of misinformation and disinformation, opinion, belief, speculation and propaganda. Gleaning truth from all of that is now more difficult than ever as faith in professional journalism erodes under persistent e-narratives of […]

More has been said about what’s wrong with recent Supreme Court decisions than about what the decisions said. Snap analyses have amounted to spreading half-true and often biased explanations to people who don’t read the opinions. On one side are liberals, including justices, who give the clear impression that the Court is political, acting like […]

In the early days of The Gathering Place, 12 years ago, the few volunteers there struggled. How could we help those who had come looking for rest and searching for a place where somebody welcomed them and was not turned away, not scorned and not driven away? Should we give them advice, offer them the […]