Every age suffers from follies based on fallacies. Our principal fallacy is the mechanical man. The mechanical-man fallacy comes from an erroneous analogy based on a false metaphor. The false metaphor ...

Rich Lowry, in his article (March 26) denouncing Bernie Sanders’ proposal to establish a four-day workweek, sums up his point at the end by saying, “Sanders’ idea is a frank expression of economic ...

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 ...

A straw-man fallacy argument is when the viewpoints you are using to argue your conclusion are not actually related to or controlled by the opposition. Much of the objection to Gorsuch Haus falls into ...

I hope FT readers see Stuart Kirk’s tirades for what they are: mental workouts with a pugnacious sparring partner, useful for training them in argument. A master of rhetoric, he bombards the reader ...

Elon Musk, the world's richest man, is buying Twitter. But the company is notoriously unprofitable. Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has called Musk the "singular solution" to the company's business ...

Subscribe for analysis that goes beyond the noise. Like a lot of pundits, Klein works from the assumption that reasonable men are capable of changing the landscape of a political party. Daniels and ...

REUTERS - Enthusiasm for new Reserve Bank of India (RBI) head Raghuram Rajan is understandable, but blind faith in him is misplaced. While Rajan, the former IMF chief economist who took over as ...