Reason’s Trolls (In The Land Of False Analogies)

Though arguments by analogy are inductive reasoning, in cases such as this, they are more about non-rational means of persuasion, such as rhetoric, than the more deductive aspects of critical thinking.

The Poverty Of How We Talk About Poverty

At some point during the Reagan/Thatcher era, we stopped talking about class as an economic category and replaced it with an understanding of class as cultural or ideological.

The Man In The Hair Castle (Donald Trump And The Politics Of Anti-Politics)

Of course, he never tells us when America was great. It’s good enough that only he knows that it is no longer.

The Jill Stein Moment (Or, No Liberal Love For The Far Left)

Post-convention season, the possibility that the electorate might be more unpredictable than Trump himself explains the increased attention now focused on Dr. Jill Stein.