When enjoining any argument or debate, be it in the seats of power or sat on a barstool in a local tavern, one must be on the lookout for what political philosopher Leo Strauss identified as 'Reductio ad Hitlerum'. We’ve all encountered this form of association fallacy, where ...read more
By EA Blair: In June, I posted an essay railing against the unnecessary invasive surgery known as circumcision. I argued that having parts of new-born babies’ genitalia sliced off was an unnecessary cruelty which violates the medical oath to ‘first do no harm’ and is an ...read more
@ell, the bat-eared bore, the cornflakes for brains Prince of Piffle is galloping apace once more atop his favorite hobbyhorse. Charles Philip Arthur George, aka the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Rothesay and first in line to be the head of state of a combined 130 million ...read more
There are some challenging problems facing America right now – serious issues which will take a lot of time, thought and political capital to tackle. Then there are the kind of problems we should be able to straighten out in a single afternoon, with just a little common sense. ...read more
During First Lady Michelle Obama’s well-publicized Let’s Move fitness campaign that began in 2010, the pop music singer known as “Beyoncé” encouraged America’s youth to quit consuming blizzards of distilled sugar and landslides of lard and, occasionally, raise their heart ...read more
Newborns babies are, to Blair’s eyes, almost invariably indistinguishable. So when a friend of Blair's texted a picture of her hour’s old niece Blair dutifully downloaded the text and prepare to text back some platitude or another (“So cute!”, I figured, would probably hit the ...read more