Word: argumentive
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...excuse this behavior with what he calls the "soothing scenario" that China will eventually come around to sharing their values, based on the assumption that democracy is a necessary byproduct of economic development. Mann calls this the "Starbucks fallacy," a reference to New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof's argument that when people have more choices of coffee than they do of leaders, political change is inevitable. But Mann sees a third way, a path between the advent of democracy and a collapse into chaos that is generally considered to be China's only alternative to political change. Twenty years...
...Bayrou has a potent vote utile argument of his own: Polls regularly show that he would have a better chance than Royal would have of beating Sarkozy in the head-to-head second round on May 6. His appeal has prompted several former Socialist ministers to break rank and urge their party to promise to govern in coalition with the centrists, prompting outrage from party leaders. But if Royal does make it into the second round, their tune could quickly change...
...frank treatment of family, personal, and international history, free of that controversy? This seems to be the goal of “Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life,” written by Sari Nusseibeh in collaboration with Anthony David. Yet though the story itself is not an argument, many of Nusseibeh’s views are embedded in its telling. He denounces policies of violence on both sides, recounting stories of unwarranted arrests, tortures, and evictions of Palestinians from their homes by Israeli officials, as well as suicide bombings and the culture of revenge that many Palestinian leaders...
Caldwell’s argument is an absurd non sequitur. She argues that because there are false accusations of rape, we should focus on women’s responsibility for their sexual behavior rather than attackers’ guilt. She fails to mention that deliberately false accusations of rape are exceedingly rare; the Duke Lacrosse case is just one sensationalized example. All accounts show that tens of thousands of rape cases each year are unreported or grossly mishandled by medical and legal response centers. She also neglects to explain how changing women’s “sexual behavior?...
...January examinations actually poses some pedagogical advantages. The fact that our calendar does not conform to those found in other places is hardly reason in and of itself for change, and I will need to hear a great deal more about the “mental health” argument before I can take it as a serious reason for change. And while we are speaking of quality of life issues, what happens in that remarkably fecund period between Thanksgiving and Christmas when plays, concerts, dinners, and all of the exuberance of fall term extracurricular life have added...