One of the most devious tactics employed by seasoned debaters is to give the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument that was not advanced by that opponent.

Regarding your editorial: “ A pistol ban on campuses,” this was a textbook example of a straw-man argument. The ideas of “a pistol in every pocket” and untrained civilians responding to crimes were ...

Jo Ann Rebane’s Opinion piece “What’s wrong with DEI? (The Union 6/18/25) is a master example of the form of fallacious argumentation known as Straw Man. In such arguments, the speaker first builds a ...