Do not lay a snare in your neighbor's path.

A Latin proverb informs us: "Discimus docendo" (We learn by teaching). What have I learned these past five semesters while teaching at a local community college? That the teachers' unions have gotten away with academic murder.

Reasoning has acquired a sketchy, even negative, reputation in recent years. 

"Color" and "niceness" are but a small part of reality.  To limit civil discourse to them is itself a failure in civilized discourse.

Here are some standard responses to come-ons. 

Last week I decided to ask my students a question at the beginning of class.

The musicology department of Copenhagen University is to offer a course on the music of Beyoncé. It would be fun, it said.

The current revelations of an epidemic of sexually aggressive behaviors (SAB) against women, particularly by men in the media over many decades, has led to calls to address this highly prevalent "disease" in our culture.

How many times have you heard someone say they want to make a better world?

Before I can teach you how to reason, I must first teach you how to rid yourself of unreason.