Dear Sir,

I read with interest the article referring to the Oxford Dictionary’s choice of a new word, “post-truth”.

Perhaps you can help me to understand this choice, since you have a way with words. How can we move to an era of post-truth, a time when truth is irrelevant, when the world has been pushing the notion that there is no truth? And if we have arrived at such a place, how does that differ from postmodernism?

CORDELL W. RILEY