8/29 For today's first projection on basics of argumentation, click here. For a projection regarding Martin Luther King's birthday, click here. For a projection on logical definitions, click here. For a projection on cogent reasoning, click here. For a projection, on deductive and inductive reasoning, click here. For a projection on hidden premises, click here. For a projection, an exercise on recognizing arguments, click here. For a projection, a New York Times article on Russia, click here. For a projection, on recognizing arguments and their components, click here.
9/3 For the first projection, an exercise on argument structure, click here. For fallacy by appeal to authority, also known as fallacy ad vericundium, click here. For courtroom standards of evidence, click here. For an exercise on valid and invalid appeals to authority, click here. For Smedley Butler's speech on U.S. intervention, click here. For a statement by the Brazilian president, click here. For a link to the 1968 debate between Gore Vidal and Willam F. Buckley, click here. For President Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, click here.
9/5 For a video on Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, click here. For a letter to the Financial Times, click here. For a speech by Dwight D. Eisenhower, click here. For a 1986 debate between Noam Chomsky and John Silber, click here. Regarding the Fallacy Ad Baculum, click here. For an illustration of Ad Baculum, click here and here.
9/10 For a list of fallacies, click here. For a scene from the movie, The Shining, click here. For a press conference with the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, click here.
9/12 On the straw-man fallacy, click here. For an exercise on fallacies, click here. For the Ad Hominem fallacy, click here. On tautology, click here. On the Korean war, click here. Video about logic and witches, click here. The video represented as a syllogism, click here (Is this a valid inference? Are these two examples of Ad Baculum? -- click here and here. For an examples of inconsistency, click here.
9/17 Iraq War fallacy, click here. For controversies regarding the CIA, click here. For a letter to the Wildcat, click here. Name the fallacy that is referenced in this image, click here. For the article "The Unkindest Cut," click here. The Nancy Pelosi Fallacy, click here. For a video on Julian Assange, click here. For a second list of fallacies, click here. For a letter on Professor Avital Ronnell, click here. For a projection on the two-wrongs-make-a-right fallacy from Israeli television, click here.
9/19 For an article on the issue of substantive relevance, from Reason magazine, click here. For fallacy in the film Ladybird, click here. For Either-Or Fallacy, click here. Speech by JFK, click here. For a video on Donald Trump, click here. For Fallacy of Composition with regard to economics, click here. For an editorial from the Arab-American, click here. For a second exercise on fallacies, click here.
9/24 For a video regarding the 2008 war in Georgia, click here. For a third list of fallacies, click here. For an article on Nikki Haley, click here. For a video presentation by Greta Thunberg, click here. A display of logic from The Donald, click here. For the Erica Jong article on the 2016 election, click here. For a newspaper article on Vladimir Putin, click here. For a video on suppression of evidence, click here.
9/26 For another video by Jeffrey Sachs, click here. For the Overton Windon, click here. For another video on suppression of evidence, click here. For a projection on Occam's Razor and conspiracy theories, click here. For an third exercise on fallacies, click here.
10/1 For an interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski on Afghanistan, click here.
10/8 For a projection on manipulative language and propaganda, click here. For a video on fine print disclaimers, click here. For a video on obfuscation, click here. For a speech by President George W. Bush on September 7, 2003, click here. For a list of words used by President Bush, click here. For a video on euphamisms/Fallacy of Whitewash, click here. Obfuscation and book titles, click here and here. For a 2017 video regarding Russia's alleged political influence, featuring Morgan Freeman, click here. A video from Rachel Maddow, click here. For two videos on Russia's military capability, click here and here.
10/10 For the use of insinuation, click here. For an example of insinuation with regard to Trump (start at 50 seconds), click here. Another example of insinuation and Trump, click here (start at 1:20). For an example of blending, click here. For two videos on Russia's military capability, click here and here. For videos on Nazi use of manipulative language click here, and here. For an exercise on manipulative language, click here. Another example of insination, click here.
10/22 For a video on psychological operations, click here. Timeline for 1991 Gulf War, click here. Link to video on propaganda pertaining to the First Gulf War, click here.
10/24 For a link to a documentary on war propaganda by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, click here. For a fictionalized version of this episode, click here. Map of Gulf states, click here.
10/29 For a link to Michael Chertoff on the "incubator atrocity," click here (minute 31). On Operation Northwoods, click here. For another article on Russia, click here.
11/5 For an article on a bombing campaign in Spain, click here. List of names on Russian history, click here.
11/7 For a list of names pertaining to the USSR and Stalin, click here. Additional list of names pertaining to the USSR, click here. Heads of Soviet secret police under Stalin, click here.
11/14 For a New York Times video on Trump voters in Nogales, click here. For a video about the Ukrainian SS Division during World War II, click here. For a video on Soviet women combatants during World War II, click here. For a video on a Soviet military parade, click here.
11/21 Image of Stalin as all-powerful, click here. For doctored photos from the Stalinist era, click here. Photo of T. D. Lysenko, click here. Child-spy Pavlik Morozov, click here. Hero worker Alexei Stakhanov, click here. Image of capitalism, click here. Images of capitalist USA, click here. Women's liberation, click here. Collectivization, click here. The "Young Pioneers" video, click here. Stalin and children, click here. For Soviet WW2 era propaganda films, click here, here, and here. More propaganda posters, click here.
12/3 How not to write: "Show, Don't Tell." On the research paper thesis, click here. For the essay, "What are the Connections between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein?" click here. Rules for writing papers, click here. On students' writing mistakes, click here.
12/5 For library sources, note book search; WorldCat; JSTOR; and Ebsco Academic Search Ultimate. For a projection on inaccuracy in newspapers, click here. For the projection on how to interpret controversy in the newspapers, click here. For a projection on the use of memoirs as primary sources, click here. For a projection on reliable sources of newspaper information, click here. For a redacted document, click here. For a guide to using classified documents, click here.
12/10 For the optional final assignment, click here. For a guide on how to cite, click here. On citing primary source documents, click here. For citation guide from the Chicago Manual of Style, click here.