Jo Ann Rebane’s Opinion piece “What’s wrong with DEI? (The Union 6/18/25) is a master example of the form of fallacious argumentation known as Straw Man. In such arguments, the speaker first builds a ...

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 ...

One of many problems with Tucker Carlson is his almost obsessive use of the straw man fallacy: rejecting an argument that differs from the one actually being made. Here’s an example: Alice says, “Cars ...

In my college days I was a Goldwater Republican. My roommate and I saw eye-to-eye. Today he is a conservative Republican, and I am a progressive Democrat. We remain close friends, but this divide ...

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 ...

So by now, in this world of mis-, dis- and sometimes just plain weird information, you have heard of a straw man argument? Maybe, maybe not? I’d take a guess though that you will probably have been on ...