Is Laughter the Best Medicine?
It dawned on me the other day that I don’t really listen to the news, I laugh at
it. I go out of my way to relish in the absurdity of the
Politics
Cruel and Usual
Ever since the institution began, and certainly since the 1970s, the American
death penalty has been an object of insatiable scrutiny in the criminal justice
system of the West. Europe is appalled that
The Pros of Disputation
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If you are standing in the school cafeteria with someone on the debate team and
you make some ridiculously subjective
Go Ahead, Change My Mind
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been teaching arguing, or persuasive, essays
in my freshmen composition courses. I save this format, along with evaluating
essays, for last because in some sense
The Message is the T-Shirt
When I was very young, my aunt and uncle gave me a ponderous elephant pendant
necklace on a heavy silver chain. It was a necklace befitting a 45-year-old
portly professional – the kind of