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- May 3, 2022
- 7 min
Musk, Twitter, and the "Town Square"
If you’re a fan of honest discourse, the announcement that eccentric electric-car-and-rocket magnate Elon Musk was buying Twitter was...
- Apr 20, 2022
- 10 min
Is College Worth It?
Time for another LogicChecker, this one based on an editorial that appeared in the New York Times a couple of weeks back, one that...
- Mar 21, 2022
- 4 min
Disinformation
Like many people trying to popularize critical-thinking and media-literacy methodologies, one of my goals with LogicCheck and other...
- Feb 28, 2022
- 13 min
Examining Priors
At the risk of coming off as heartless in the face of this week’s horrific events in Ukraine, I’d like to perform a little Logic Checking...
- Jan 14, 2022
- 8 min
Arguing Over the Filibuster
Time for a good-ol’ LogicChecker which takes a look at the reasoning behind a political argument, in this case an editorial that appeared...
- Jan 10, 2022
- 6 min
A Million-in-One Shot
This Sunday’s edition of my local paper, The Boston Globe, included a couple of op-eds worth analyzing, starting with this piece...