Four Fallacies and a Big Mistake

In their arguments against divesting from fossil fuels, Ivy League presidents offer a lesson in sophistry. It pains this old logic professor to read university officials’ arguments against divesting from fossil fuels — not because their refusal to divest...

The Pope Plays His Trump Card

When Pope Francis framed climate change as a moral problem and issued a call to conscience, he played a powerful card. That’s because a moral argument trumps – that is, negates the power of — the usual, self-serving responses, like “reducing carbon...

New Sculpture at Matthew Knight Arena

New Sculpture at the Matthew Knight Arena is High, Wide – and Deep We get only a flickering glimpse of reality, Plato wrote two thousand years ago in a famous passage now called the Allegory of the Cave. The images we see are like the shadows of moving figures cast by...