Reductio ad absurdum is one of my favourite debating techniques. In a nutshell you disprove your opponent’s argument by showing that if your opponent’s statement were true, it would lead to an absurd conclusion. This technique is not without its kryptonite. And that kryptonite is of course: stupid
Hannah Cox fee.org Hannah Cox is a libertarian-conservative writer, commentator, and activist. She’s a Newsmax Insider and a Contributor to The Washington Examiner. As the nation continues to grapple with the fallout from the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, prominent members of the media are calling
Salman Rushdie famously said that without the freedom to offend, free speech doesn’t exist. If the Plod are to be believed, then there is indeed no freedom of speech in Britain any more. Merseyside Police has apologised for claiming “being offensive is an offence” as part of a campaign
Ashley Church israelinstitute.nz In March 1947, US President Harry Truman enacted an Executive Order which required all federal employees to be screened for ‘loyalty’ as a way of rooting out those who would seek to ‘alter the form of Government of the United States by unconstitutional means’. The move
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Facebook unfriended all of Australia last week. Locked in a battle with the Federal government over legislation which would force it to pay for links to news publications, it wiped Australian news sources from viewer’s feeds. So when you checked your Facebook feed on February
Alexander Hall newsbusters.org YouTube has not stopped its censorious ways. Now the platform has torched a Newsmax interview with former President Donald Trump. “YouTube took down a newly recorded interview with former President Donald Trump in Google’s latest action against conservatives,” The Epoch Times reported Feb. 20. “A
Bruce Wilds brucewilds.blogspot.com While pondering the current state of the world I stumbled upon the question or idea that one of the things that makes the internet so intriguing is the alluring idea that it holds the potential to elevate the user to a higher level of importance.
Ethan Yang aier.org Ethan joined AIER in 2020 as an Editorial Assistant and is a graduate of Trinity College. He received a BA in Political Science alongside a minor in Legal Studies and Formal Organizations. There’s certainly something poetic about my existence being the son of two immigrant
Years ago, well, in 1996 to be precise, there was a programme on TV3 in New Zealand by the name of Police Stop! It was a spin-off of a UK show of the same name where Police in-car camera footage was used to create what was really one of the
Some time back, I wrote that it was time for the Ls, Gs and Bs to ditch the Ts. Lesbian women and gay men are kidding themselves if they really think a bunch of vicious loonies in drag are really on their side. The transgender lobby are merely using the
We all know what the culture wars are, and why conservatives have been steadily losing for decades. The culture wars are not just annoying and spiteful, they’re consequential. At its broadest, in Andrew Breitbart’s famous dictum, “politics is downstream from culture.” More specifically, the culture wars are the
Right to Life News righttolife.org.uk Almost a quarter of pro-life students have been “threatened, abused, alarmed or distressed” for being pro-life at university, according to new poll. According to polling by the national student pro-life group, the Alliance of Pro-Life Students (APS), over 71.9% of pro-life students
Dale Steinreich mises.org Dale Steinreich is an economist and an Associated Scholar of the Mises Institute. A sitting US president is suspended from Twitter, Facebook, and email service provider Campaign Monitor. A pillow entrepreneur not only loses his personal and business Twitter accounts but also ten retail stores for
