Regarding your editorial: “ A pistol ban on campuses,” this was a textbook example of a straw-man argument. The ideas of “a pistol in every pocket” and untrained civilians responding to crimes were ...

Most observers agree that the Supreme Court will decide Obergefell v. Hodges in favor of marriage equality when it issues its decision later this month. What is really at stake is the precise ...

This year I am teaching a philosophy class, and my students and I have really enjoyed logic. One of the most perplexing fallacies we discuss is the straw man argument: when someone responds to an ...