I don’t mean to pick on Dargan Pete again, but his Jan. 15 column is a classic example of the “straw man” logical fallacy. For those readers who didn’t have a secondary school English class unit on ...

A school bus drops students off at Mira Mesa High School. Photo by Chris Stone I write this op-ed from my perspective as teacher educator with expertise in multicultural education to address parents ...

Two years ago, Straw Man Army, a DIY post-punk duo from New York, released their album SOS, and it impressed the hell out of me. Now, Straw Man Army have announced plans to drop a new LP called ...

The world according to Yascha Mounk is a bleak place: In the stranglehold of a new ideology, contemporary society has abandoned the liberal tenets that once guided it, in favor of race-based ...

Jo Ann Rebane’s Opinion piece “What’s wrong with DEI? (The Union 6/18/25) is a master example of the form of fallacious argumentation known as Straw Man. In such arguments, the speaker first builds a ...

So by now, in this world of mis-, dis- and sometimes just plain weird information, you have heard of a straw man argument? Maybe, maybe not? I’d take a guess though that you will probably have been on ...

As the curtain falls on Act 1 of this farcical dramedy called 2022, Straw Man Army’s “SOS” already feels like the album of the year — yes, in a boring, music-crit-praise-language kind of way, but more ...