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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sept 5 (Reuters) - Enthusiasm for new Indian central bank head Raghuram Rajan is understandable, but blind faith in him is misplaced. Sign up here. While Rajan, the former IMF chief economist who took ...

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 ...