Articles
Each article takes one argument that is alive in our cultural discourse and picks apart the places where the reasoning goes wrong. It names the grammar underneath and identifies one or more tools that help you spot the same patterns. Every article ends with a reader review: questions that you can ask to check whether the article identified the grammar and used the tools correctly.
- Health · October 13, 2026The Childhood Vaccine Schedule: Who Counts as an ExpertMost people settle the vaccine question by deciding whom to trust. In the 2026 fight over America's childhood schedule, every camp has a blind spot in how it makes that choice.G11 Contested Epistemic Authority · G6 The Hidden Hand
- Education · October 11, 2026How a School Phone Ban Test Became the Trial of the SmartphoneThe phone bans did what they were built to do: phones left the classroom. What that was worth depends on what you count, and the two loudest camps in the smartphone fight each counted what proved them right.G7 Moral Panic and the Folk Devil
- Economics · October 9, 2026The Fight Over Affordability Is Not a Fight About PricesBoth parties want to own "affordability," the word of the 2026 midterms. Once a party owns the word, its leaders can skip the hard part: saying what they would build, and who would pay.G9 Language as Territory
- AI · October 7, 2026The Bouncer Problem: Teens & AI CompanionsAlmost every plan to keep teenagers safe from AI companions depends on knowing how old each user is. One side of the fight leaves out what that costs, and the other treats the cost as the whole story.G2 Liberty versus Safety
- Economics · October 5, 2026Do Data Centers Raise Your Electric Bill?Most people are sure what the new AI data centers do to their electric bill. The answer that holds up depends on where they live, and the loudest voices in the fight keep leaving that part out.G12 Fixed Pie or Growing Pie · G6 The Hidden Hand