I was appalled by the false equivalence letter writer P. Johnsen of Scaggsville employed when comparing today’s claimants of sanctuary status with the views of the pre-Civil War war pro-slavery ...
Fairness means listening to different perspectives and opinions. It does not always require giving equal weight or time to those different sides. So how does this work in practice? When people have ...
CNN anchor Pamela Brown shut down Sen. Markwayne Mullin’s (R-Okla.) election comparison Thursday, saying the contrast he made between the 2016 and 2020 contests was a “false equivalence.” Brown ...
“Reality,” Stephen Colbert once said, “has a well-known liberal bias.” He was joking–or “joking”–but he identified a serious problem for political reporters in a polarized era. What do you do when the ...
The Holocaust is trivialised at the very moment its imagery is weaponised. History is not misunderstood; it is repurposed.
Sal jaywalks. Tom slips a candy bar in his pocket at a 7-11 and leaves without paying. Jim robs a bank. Chris kills someone in cold blood. Sal, Tom, Jim and Chris are all criminals. They all broke the ...
This week, 17 student groups released a statement portrayed as seeking “unity and solidarity” in the aftermath of the senseless violence in Charlottesville. Yet the groups curiously seek such unity by ...