A series of three experiments found that when people evaluate arguments on political topics, their prior beliefs about that ...

The Badger Herald ran a painfully misinformed Op-Ed on rape culture by David Hookstead Monday. His entire argument is framed around an incorrect assumption. We have not all heard of rape culture ...

Three arguments I hear against the Valley’s Edge (VE) development are fire, water, and traffic. The letter from a recently retired fire chief should carry more weight regarding fire risk than local ...

uThe content of the premises of the argument can be criticized. This kind of evaluation is called a content criticism. uThe relationship between the premises and the conclusion can be criticized. This ...

Debates over the role of township governments in Indiana, including whether they should continue to exist, have raged off and on since at least the 1930s. But new sets of data documenting the ...

Pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (as in effect at the time of petitioners birth in 1974), a child born outside the United States to unmarried parents a U.S.-citizen mother and a ...

Back in January, I posted a piece on this blog asking if any readers wanted to develop their critical thinking as a kind of New Year’s Resolution. Following some rather positive feedback, I added a ...

The politics of American nuclear modernization are heating up. As defense budgets come under increased scrutiny, lawmakers are taking a close look at the future of the ground-based leg of America’s ...