The Spirited Reasoner

2018 promises to be an exciting year for Spirited Reasoners.  Of course, this year is an election year for the U. S. House of Representatives and approximately one-third of the…

It isn’t hard to do. Here’s the vision: Say it’s the start of campaign season all across the United States.  (Which it happens to be as I post this message,…

Conventional wisdom in American presidential politics runs along the following lines: A candidate running for the Democratic Party nomination needs to appeal to that party’s core in order to gain…

In a recent local election–I won’t say exactly where or when, to protect the innocent–two candidates debated the virtues of allowing the importation of a certain commodity into the local…

Okay.  So I was hoping, when I asked myself that question, that I could reason myself to a “no” answer without much difficulty.  I was thinking, in my typically specious…