Some of my readers may recall that my favorite story from the H.G. Wells short story collection The Door In The Wall was "The Moth," a tale of an academic squabble that ended in insanity. A strong ...

Banks are discriminatory in handing out loans to minorities. Women earn less money than men due to employer discrimination. There are wide disparities in wealth and income because the rich steal from ...

TODAY, author Jonathan Siegel is an angel investor. In the past, he has launched a number of start-ups – some very successful, others failures. But this is not a book about another successful ...

LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES—Lionel Wiggam— Viking ($1.75). Of all the fallacies which man hugs to his bosom, the one characterized by Ruskin as “the pathetic fallacy” is the most common to romantic poets.

It is obvious that teaching and research in informal logic (critical thinking, rhetoric) is a growth industry, indeed one of burgeoning proportions. Judging by skyrocketing enrolments and the ...