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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In this New York Times run-down of last night’s dueling presidential town-hall meetings, the reporter accuses the President of equivocating on the subject of support for mask-wearing. Equivocation is another...
Learn MoreOn 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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Of all the fallacies described in Critical Voter, I suspect the one we’ll be seeing the most of this election season is the already all-too-common Association Fallacy. For those of you interested in such...
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