Last October the comedian-philosopher Jon Stewart did writing teachers a great service. Accosting the hosts of CNN’s Crossfire, Stewart accused them of shortchanging the American public by failing to ...
Perhaps the greatest challenge to academe in the current political environment is the ascendancy of a “post-truth,” “alternative fact,” “fake news” culture, in which claims are detached from evidence ...
Argumentation theory and critical thinking together form a crucial sphere of scholarly inquiry that interrogates the nature, structure and ethics of human reasoning. This interdisciplinary field ...
Dr. Ruth Karachi Benson Oji, Associate Professor of Pragmatics and Digital Media Discourse at Pan-Atlantic University, has fundamentally reshaped how academics and policymakers understand digital ...