What is Fair about Campus Sexual Assault?
Last week, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos held meetings to discuss rolling back Obama-era policies designed to reduce campus sexual assaults. Controversiall...
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The Role of the Church in Health Care
The Republican health care bill has been resurrected. So the debate surrounding health care will continue. One of the central questions in that debate is a reli...
NRA’s Dana Loesch Ad
Recently, the NRA released a series of ads called Freedom’s Safest Place. In this roundup, Citizen Critics responds to spokeswoman Dana Loesch’s video...
The Fourth of July is a Day to #Resist
Once again, stores are stocked with miniature flags and coal for grilling. Americans are breaking out picnic blankets and American flag-themed apparel. At the s...
I’m Not Racist; I’m Nostalgic for Racial Terror: The Debate Over Confederate Monuments
For over a century a 16.5-foot-tall statue of Robert E. Lee towered over the city of New Orleans, standing as a symbol of the Confederate insurrection and vario...
All the President’s Words
It has been more than two weeks since The Washington Post led other media outlets in reporting President Trump shared classified material with Russian guests in...
What Terrorism Discourse Invoking Hitler Tells Us About Language
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer is the most recent in a long line of people who have committed the logical fallacy of reductio ad Hitlerum. See Hank Wil...
Trump and Moral Authority
Recently “moral authority” has become part of the debate over the effectiveness of the Trump presidency. It is important to understand how this concept works be...
Examining Arguments for ‘Campus Carry’
The debate over guns on campus has been intensifying in recent years as more state legislatures debate and pass what are commonly called “campus carry” laws. Th...
100 days of Presidential Threats
This article originally appeared in The Conversation on April 25, 2017.
President Donald Trump threatens people a lot. He menaces, he bullies and then he exp...