Too late for a mention in last month’s article in this space, in which I noted that what is called “truth” in the media and elsewhere does not necessarily mean truth as people used to understand it, was Rudy Giuliani’s getting himself in a heap o’ trouble by saying exactly that on Meet the Press. At least that’s what I think he said. Others would disagree. In discussing with the host, Chuck Todd, the possibility of Robert Mueller’s using a prospective interview with Donald Trump to spring a perjury trap (“Truth is truth,” Mr. Todd had disingenuously objected), Mr. Giuliani said, “No, it isn’t truth. ‘Truth’ isn’t truth.” And who could doubt the veracity of his words when the media, in pursuit of political advantage for their fellow Trump-haters, chose to report his words without the punctuation I have supplied above, thus making him out to be either an imbecile or insane—or possibly a postmodern literary theorist?

Here, in other words, would seem to be a perfect example of the truth of what Mr. Giuliani, and I, had been saying. But when The New York Times and others transcribed his remarks without punctuation, they did so in order to express what, to Rudy and me, was the patent untruth—though one gratifying to their own prejudices—that he had denied the existence of truth itself. I ask myself two questions. First, how can the reporters and editors of the Times—who are themselves, presumably, neither an imbecile nor insane