Texts in Context: Warriors and Wits
On the eve of the Persian invasion, let us look more closely at Athens and its opposite number, Sparta.
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Sorting Through Sophistries: Godwin’s Law (and Other Corks)
Cork (noun). An object put into the mouth of something to prevent fluids from escaping it.
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Texts in Context: A Cry From the East
Or rather, two cries. A revolution in intellectual culture was followed by a revolt, and that revolt was only a hint of the great drama soon to play out on the Hellene stage.
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Texts in Context: The Age of the Tyrants
Archaic Greece saw the politics and culture of their society bloom, to a degree easily equalling the Late-Medieval Renaissance.
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Texts in Context: The Four Corners of the Round Earth
We pause for a moment, in our tracing of Western history, to glance at everybody else’s history.
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Sorting Through Sophistries: Fallace E. Coyote
The slippery slope fallacy contends that a given idea, choice, or action will behave like Acme Rocket Skates.
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Texts in Context: A Rosy-Fingered Dawn
Texts in Context:A Rosy-Fingered Dawn By Gabriel Blanchard The Dark Age of the post-Bronze-Age Ægean is obscure to historians, but what happened next is far less so …
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Sorting Through Sophistries: A Drop of Poison
How do you handle a fallacy that’s right sometimes? Is it even still a fallacy?
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Texts in Context: Darkness on the Mountains
Texts in Context:Darkness on the Mountains By Gabriel Blanchard Here we turn from “the contemplative Sphinx” and “garden-girdled Babylon”1 to a small, enigmatic people, as few in number
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Sorting Through Sophistries: The Scarecrow and the Steel Man
Many fallacies are little more than failures to speak to the point; straw men exhibit this to the nth degree.
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