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- Jan 24, 2022
- 3 min
No True Scotsman
Of all the elements in the critical-thinker’s tool bag, fallacies tend to have the coolest names, such as Argumentation from Outrage, Tu...
- Mar 25, 2021
- 4 min
Ethics Bowl - Correlation
Continuing to look at ways to apply critical-thinking principles to ethical dilemmas, including those making up national cases for this...
- Feb 14, 2021
- 4 min
But What About...?
Is there anything to be learned from the just-ended Impeachment II? What about whataboutism?
- Oct 31, 2020
- 3 min
Getting the Vote Count "Right"
Nowhere is the gap between human belief in the perfection of numbers, and their grubby reality more apparent than during an election count.
- Oct 24, 2020
- 4 min
Deliberation
The final presidential debate demonstrates how deliberation is where critical thinking and democratic politics meet.
- Oct 16, 2020
- 3 min
Equivocation
When it comes to critical thinking, the ambiguity inherent in language can easily lead to the fallacy of equivocation.