The Agenda

Three Ways To Lose An Argument
by John Taraborelli

[This article appeared in The Agenda #14, January 2006]

There are three all-purpose arguments in American public discourse that are so insipid, so hackneyed, so insulting to our intelligence, that anyone who invokes them cannot help but forsake their credibility. They are: the Nazi Argument, the Terrorist Argument, and the Founding Fathers Argument.