With last week being “School Choice Week” here are a few bad arguments frequently made against the school-choice movement. Bad argument 1: School vouchers waste public money by sending it to private ...

In the era of “search engine optimization” and click bait, I’m told that list-based articles (sometimes called listicles) continue to be a great way to gain the interest of a distracted populace. And ...

Last week, President Trump's announced sweeping tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports into the United States: 25 percent on American buyers of imported steel-mill products and 10 percent on ...

Would you collect jokes that aren’t very funny? Of course not. So instead I collect arguments that don’t exactly prove what they’re supposed to. Let me know if you find a bad argument that’s also ...

Formal logic helps us build and evaluate rational arguments, which helps us to test claims, explain our reasoning, and keep discussions clear. The first step in learning formal logic is learning about ...

To persuade you, people often try to use logical fallacies (Credit: Javier Hirschfeld) When people are trying to persuade you, they sometimes reach for underhand tricks like the 'appeal to ignorance' ...