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  • Not Everyone Can Handle the Truth

    Not Everyone Can Handle the Truth0

    When it comes to arguing over differences on an important point, “saving your breath” on someone isn’t always an act of dismissiveness. In some cases, it’s probably an act of wisdom. The democratization of intellect in America has created the impression that almost everyone should be capable of rational discourse. After all, we live in

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  • Not Every Tragedy Has a Political Solution

    Not Every Tragedy Has a Political Solution0

    • November 6, 2017

    It only took a few hours after the news of the Texas massacre for the New York Times to start its gun-control incantations again. “Republicans leaders in Congress do nothing,” the paper writes. “Or, really, so far they’ve done the same thing they have always done: offered thoughts and prayers.” But here is a truth.

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  • Not Every Slippery-Slope Argument is a Fallacy

    Not Every Slippery-Slope Argument is a Fallacy0

    • March 7, 2016

    In critical-thinking, logic, and philosophy classes, students are often taught to detect and avoid something called “the slippery-slope fallacy.” Such warnings are sometimes justified. But at other times they are actually misleading—so much so that rejecting certain arguments as slippery-slope fallacies is itself fallacious. Understanding why is important morally, politically, and psychologically. A search on

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  • Not Every Child Needs a Diagnosis (And What To Do Instead)

    Not Every Child Needs a Diagnosis (And What To Do Instead)5

    I recently had the opportunity to attend a homeschool resource fair at a small local school for the arts in my hometown. Every classroom and corridor was filled with tables covered in information about homeschool co-ops, clubs, private classes and teachers. Everything from ballet to robotics, art, woodworking, and every conceivable academic approach were represented

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  • Not Equal?

    Not Equal?0

    • August 6, 2015

    In the public mind, sex and gender are now separate, though the terms are often confused. Just to clarify, according to the dominant cultural narrative of our time sex (male or female) is biological while gender (masculine or feminine) is how one identifies. Logically, it gets very messy, especially when considered through the lens of

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  • Not All Smart Girls Need to Go to College

    Not All Smart Girls Need to Go to College0

    A recent Forbes article left readers with a statistic that is downright scary: Two-thirds of the American student debt is held by women. This is perhaps not surprising since more women than men now go to college. But there’s a more alarming reason at play. Compared to men, women are less likely to understand the

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