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How to Think and Argue Well (a crash course)

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How to Think and Argue Well

Prelude Is social media making us simple-minded? Are we losing our capacity for critical thought? Have our education institutions let us down? I believe the answer to all of these questions is YES.  I have written about these subjects before, however, in the wake of recent scenes emerging from the US:  The Amy Cooper video The […]

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Actually, this IS normal

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Please take everything I’m about to say as it’s intended – Tough love. For all those saying “We’ve never seen anything like this” – Yes we have, and it can get much worse. In June 2018 I published an article in which I stated: “If you take a broad look at the full history of […]

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A Prediction for 2020

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It will be a year of reckoning Over the last two weeks, I participated in some online panel discussions in which the theme was “Social Media Trends for 2020”. In these, I put forward a few predictions, but the one that seemed to intrigue my fellow panelists the most was that 2020 will be a […]

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Awards are nice, people are nicer!

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Truth is paradoxical. Consider these expressions for examples: Actions speak louder than words. | The pen is mightier than the sword. Look before you leap. | He who hesitates is lost. The early bird catches the worm. | Haste makes waste. The day after the WOI Awards Gala in Toronto I needed to take some […]