Towards the end of last year, I was approached by a company called Listenable that produces audio courses built around ten or so podcast-like lectures, each of which are around 5-10 minutes in...
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From LogicCheck… Last year, the online publication Inside Higher Education decided to eliminate comment sections, joining a long list of publications that have dropped features that allowed readers to...
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Why was the second (and final) presidential debate so much more satisfying than the train wreck that took place the first time the candidates jousted? Kudos have been handed to the debate’s moderator,...
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Time to take a break from national and viral politics to logic-check a local issue on the ballot in my home state of Massachusetts. Massachusetts publishes a detailed voter guide that it mails to every...
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On a recent drive, my son introduced me to the phrase which headlines this post, which reminded me that one of the great beauties of language, and a key pillar of verbal humor, is ambiguity. “British...
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While I had anticipated that this year’s election would be divisive and ugly, I still assumed that the rhetoric in which a heated campaign would take place would fall into conventional categories described in...
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