In this issue of IAI News, a head to head from two combatants in the recently released IAI tv debate ‘After the End of Truth’ which has caused something of a storm. The debate was not short of disagreement.  On one side one of the world’s most influential analytic philosophers, John Searle, was defending realism and philosophy’s classical values: objectivity and truth.  On the other philosopher and director of the IAI, Hilary Lawson, argued that realism had failed and an independent reality was a fantasy. So we’ve given both of them a right to reply.