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Not Every Slippery-Slope Argument is a Fallacy 0
- 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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Former Clinton Administration Member: ‘Cruz is Even More Dangerous Than Trump’0
- March 7, 2016
Over the past few months, many have been sounding apocalyptic alarms with the rise of Donald Trump. But in a recent post on his website, Robert Reich—a Democrat—argued that Ted Cruz is actually “more dangerous” than Donald Trump. For those who don’t know, Reich has served in the administrations of three presidents. His latest stint
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Is the Stand-By-Your-Man Attitude Increasingly a Thing of the Past?0
- Culture
- March 7, 2016
With the news of Nancy Reagan’s death, the media has been peppered with tributes to the wife of America’s 40th President. Despite what the writers of these tributes may think of Mrs. Reagan’s politics or even personal quirks (and yes, she had some), they all seem to agree that she had a major redeeming quality.
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Does Homework Still Have Value?0
- Education
- March 7, 2016
We all remember complaining as kids about homework. Those of us who are parents have had it repeated by our own kids, as will you, too, if you become a parent. So it would be wonderful if research were to discover that homework doesn’t do much good. Then we could convince educators to drop the
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Beware the Sombreros of March 0
- Culture
- March 7, 2016
When does a hat become a battleground? When you’re trying to have good, clean fun on a politically-correct campus, that’s when. Last week, reports Catherine Rampell in the Washington Post, two members of Bowdoin College’s student government faced “impeachment proceedings” to be conducted over the weekend: “What heinous transgression did they commit? Theft, plagiarism, sexual
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61% of Americans believe Immigration Jeopardizes the Country?0
- Culture
- March 7, 2016
Bloomberg Businessweek got its hands on a poll conducted for the management consulting firm A.T. Kearney ahead of the public release that claims, “sixty-one percent of Americans agree that ‘continued immigration into the country jeopardizes the United States.’” Unfortunately, we can’t see the polling data or cross tabs to actually judge the merits of the
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Not Every Slippery-Slope Argument is a Fallacy 0