After five decades hosting radio phone-ins and debates, Nicky Campbell reflects on the state of public debate ...

A new study published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences suggests that a person’s ability to handle uncertain situations plays a role in their political choices. The research ...

When thinking about the title for this post, I came awfully close to saying that certainty “matters more” than accuracy, but I thought that perhaps it might sound too cynical. But that stronger ...

Certainty, like dogma, is one of those things that people hate only when they disagree with what people are certain (or dogmatic) about. EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is Jonah Goldberg’s weekly ...

In the course of a single week, there has been all of this: "I have been truthful and consistent on every level since day one," actor Jussie Smollett told the world after prosecutors dropped 16 felony ...

Why do we seek certainty in our lives? Why do we sometimes not want certainty? This post explains how certainty is part of affect, the evaluative common currency of the mind.

Doubt and certainty are feelings on opposite poles of an axis, each having a significant role to play as you progress down your path of personal development. While certainty can make your actions more ...

Getting a cancer diagnosis pulls the rug out from under your life. It's a struggle to give up expectations and learn to accept the unknown. In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is ...

After we were received into the Catholic Church we got some snide comments from our former friends: “How nice for you. Now that you’re Catholic you won’t have to think for yourself anymore.” Does one ...