I don’t mean to pick on Dargan Pete again, but his Jan. 15 column is a classic example of the “straw man” logical fallacy. For those readers who didn’t have a secondary school English class unit on ...

Have you ever heard of the phrase, “War on Christmas?” It’s a common exaggeration made by those who perceive a societal change from people saying “Merry Christmas” to now saying “Happy Holidays.” An ...

I’m afraid Tom Neumark’s March 9 piece on schools, (“The school privatization that isn’t”) based as it was on the old “straw man” fallacy, didn’t do his cause any favors. I would recommend almost any ...

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