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This text introduces students to the topic of good reasoning in a way that is relevant to everyday life. It uses examples taken from the media (TV, newspapers, magazines), public school textbooks, advertisements, as well as from the best comic strips (such as Calvin and Hobbes, and Doonesbury), cartoons from "New Yorker" magazine and the best political cartoonists (for example, Levine and Tom Toles).
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"Howard Kahane, who died in 2001, is considered one of the founders of the ""critical thinking"" movement--an approach to logic that makes it less abstract and more more practical as a tool for analyzing political and social issues."
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