Donald Trump on Saturday got hit with a legal loss when an appeals court blocked his administration from deploying the ...

Arguments in the vaccine exemption lawsuit came down to whether the presence of unvaccinated people would truly harm individuals with immunocompromised medical status at Wednesday’s hearing at the ...

In this week’s, Dr. David Gordon reviews Steven Pinker’s new book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows. As Dr. Gordon ...

P1. Individual emissions have zero expected effects on climate change. P2. Zero expected effects on climate change cause no harm. C1. Individual emissions do not cause harm. P3. To have a moral reason ...

The upshot was frightening. Paradoxically individual freedom could end up being more restricted under mass democracy than under the despotic sovereigns of yore. Mill famously refers to this as ...

Prime Minister Robert Abela pledged to improve Malta’s IVF law to allow more couples to become parents. Interviewed by John ...

In 1932, in one of the more infamous exchanges between what eventually came to be known as the “analytic” and “continental” ...

In his famous 1925 essay “A Defence of Common Sense,” the philosopher G. E. Moore wrote: “There exists at present a living human body, which is my body.” For Moore, such an utterance is an example of ...

The goal of an argument is to enhance understanding, to discover weaknesses in your opinions. Debates are about winning.

Whenever someone said to my father, “Let’s have a conversation,” he would reply, “No, let’s have an argument.” Today, that ...

My father’s love of argument was based on classical Greek philosophy, which championed the idea of dialogue. Socrates taught ...

A new book finds this evidence in rational arguments. And in something those arguments can’t capture. There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the ...