Nevertheless, the question ‘Do you believe in truth or are you one of those frivolous postmodernists?’ is often the first one that journalists ask intellectuals whom they are assigned to interview. That question now plays the role previously played by the question ‘Do you believe in God, or are you one of those dangerous atheists?’. Literary types are frequently told that they do not love truth sufficiently. Such admonitions are delivered in the same tones in which their predecessors were reminded that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. “

Richard Rorty