If you’re a fan of honest discourse, the announcement that eccentric electric-car-and-rocket magnate Elon Musk was buying Twitter was...

Time for another LogicChecker, this one based on an editorial that appeared in the New York Times a couple of weeks back, one that...

Like many people trying to popularize critical-thinking and media-literacy methodologies, one of my goals with LogicCheck and other...

At the risk of coming off as heartless in the face of this week’s horrific events in Ukraine, I’d like to perform a little Logic Checking...

Time for a good-ol’ LogicChecker which takes a look at the reasoning behind a political argument, in this case an editorial that appeared...

This Sunday’s edition of my local paper, The Boston Globe, included a couple of op-eds worth analyzing, starting with this piece...

This special holiday episode of LogicCheck is dedicated to an evergreen in political cartooning: the use of Christmas-related images to...

Over the last month, an idea once condemned as a conspiracy theory and banned from social media and polite conversation – the so-called...

It’s been a while since I provided you a LogicChecker that looks at the arguments behind important news events, which is why I’d like to...

I wanted to use this week’s LogicChecker to introduce a set of techniques that can increase the power of an argument through strategic...

Keeping with the theme of showcasing examples of high-quality arguments, I’d like to pick one today that illustrates multiple attributes...

A new colleague I met at last week’s American Philosophical Association (APA) conference in cyberspace recommended that I share an...

How well does New York Times columnist @NickKristof make his case for school reopening?

What would it look like if colleges and universities used logic checking to determine whether and how to reopen?

A reasonable argument can fail to persuade due to too much reliance on logos (logic)

Here's a real argument, rather than a fight, over how to best manage the reopening of society.

Is there a strong argument for ending press coverage of President Trump's daily Covid briefings?

What does Bernie Sanders' farewell address teach us about forensic, demonstrative and deliberative argumentation?

Who can we blame for the severity of the Conoravirus in the US?

Can a Toulmin diagram help us determine if audiences should be banned from debates in the future?