8/23 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.
8/25 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.
8/30 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.
9/1 For a list of fallacies, click here. Regarding the Fallacy Ad Baculum, click here. For an illustration of Ad Baculum, click here and here. On the straw-man fallacy, 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.
9/6 For a video on logical fallacies featuring Glenn Greenwald, click here. For the article "The Unkindest Cut," click here. For an exercise on fallacies, click here. For controversies regarding the CIA, click here. For a letter to the Wildcat, click here. For a scene from the movie, The Shining, click here. Name the fallacy that is referenced in this image, click here.
9/8 For a video on Julian Assange, click here. For a second list of fallacies, click here. For the fallacy of the beard, click here. For a projection on the two-wrongs-make-a-right fallacy from Israeli television, click here. For a letter on Professor Avital Ronnell, click here. For an article on the issue of substantive relevance, from Reason magazine, click here.
9/13 For a Youtube video regarding controversy at Ryerson University, click here and here. For fallacy in the film Ladybird, click here. Name that fallacy, click here. For Fallacy of Composition with regard to economics, 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 election, click here. For a newspaper article on Vladimir Putin, click here. For an editorial from the Arab-American, click here. For a second exercise on fallacies, click here.
9/14 Speech by JFK, click here. For a video on Donald Trump, click here.
9/27 Timeline for 1991 Gulf War, click here. Link to video on propaganda pertaining to the First Gulf War, click here. 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.
9/29 For a video regarding the 2008 war in Georgia, click here (what is the fallacy here?). For a third list on fallacies, click here. On tautological definitions, click here. "Name that Fallacy," click here. Name that Fallacy, once again, click here. For an exercise on fallacies, click here. For a newspaper article on Vladimir Putin, click here. For an article on the 2016 election, click here.
10/4 For a video on suppression of evidence, click here. Name that fallacy, click here. 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 video illustration of manipulative language as political propaganda, 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 video regarding Russia's alleged political influence, featuring Morgan Freeman, click here. A video from Rachel Maddow, click here.
10/6 For an exercise on manipulative language, click here. For videos on Nazi use of manipulative language click here, and here.
10/11 For Fallacy of Suppressed Evidence/Fallacy of Whitewash, click here.
10/13 For two videos on Russia's military capability, click here and here.
11/1 For a BBC documentary on Soviet women combatants in World War II, click here.
10/20 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.
10/25 For a video on the Athens Democracy Forum, click here.
10/27 On doctored photographs, click here, and here.
11/1 For a BBC documentary on Soviet women combatants during World War II, click here.
11/3 For a video on a Stalin era military parade, click here. For a BBC film on Soviet women during World War II, click here. 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. Need for secrecy,click here. Women's liberation, click here. Collectivization, click here. Stalin and Komsomols, click here. Stalin as father figure, click here. For Soviet WW2 era propaganda films, click here, here, and here. More propaganda posters, click here.
11/10 For a map of the new republics arising out of the Soviet Union, after its 1991 break, click here. For a map of Ukraine, click here. Map of Cold War NATO-WTO, click here. For a list of names associated with post-Soviet Russia, click here. For Time magazine cover with Boris Yeltsin, click here. For a link to documents on the 1992 Defense Planning Guidance, click here. For the BBC transcript of the leaked conversation by Victoria Nuland, click here.
11/15 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.
11/17 For library sources, note book search; WorldCat; JSTOR; and Ebsco Academic Search Ultimate.
11/29 For a projection on inaccuracy in newspapers, click here. For the projection on how to interpret controversy in the newspapers, click here.
12/1 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 video interview with Madeleine Albright, click here.
12/6 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.
Additional links:
For a discussion on how to frame questions in research papers, click here.
For an analysis of CIA corruption with regard to the Bay of Pigs invasion, click here.
Regarding exaggerated atrocity stories in wartime, click here.