How to Be More Rational This Year: Follow This Harvard Professor’s Simple Be Right/Get It Right Rule Harvard’s Steven Pinker offers a simple suggestion for a more rational (and successful) year.

Being rational in an argument versus being reasonable. Hence, being rational in an argument does not mean that you need to be good at articulating your thoughts or able to make more sense than others.

Democracy relies on rational argument. Richardt Cherwitz. ... (1974-2019) teaching a course in argumentation and advocacy and researching the role of argument in public discourse.

Whenever I write something that exposes the lies and deceptions of Donald Trump and his congressional enablers, I can count on getting a response that goes something like this: “It doesn’t ...

In defense of rational argument. “I just want to point out,” declared the student at the far end of the seminar table, “that when Maimonides offers a proof of God’s existence, he is not ...

As scholars of political rhetoric, we find the special prosecutor’s indictment against Donald J. Trump in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case significant because it reaffirms the role of ...

Proponents of renewable energy are increasingly relying on economic incentives rather than rational arguments to drive the global transition to green energy. As climate policies in developed ...

With the nation strongly conflicted over abortion, I can appreciate the recent guest column, "Abortion is an essential component of reproductive care." The author spoke of the desire to be both ...