Latin for “against the man,” ad hominem arguments are embraced by politicians on both sides of the aisle. It’s a time-tested ...

Yesterday, The Huffington Post yanked conservative firebrand Andrew Breitbart from the front page of its publication, citing his "false ad hominem" attacks made in a Daily Caller interview as the ...

An ad hominem attack against an intellectual, not against an idea, is highly flattering. It indicates that the person does not have anything intelligent to say about your message. -Nassim Taleb ...

In case you haven’t noticed, people are arguing with each other all over the place these days. Current political events seem to have led to record-setting argumentation. My Facebook feed used to be ...

Less well-known from the Gladwell oeuvre is Ad Hominem, a zine Gladwell edited and published with two friends as a teenager living in a small farming town in Ontario, Canada. “Our rule was you had to ...

“Ad hominem” literally means “to the person” in New Latin (Latin as first used in post-medieval texts). In centuries past, this adjective usually modified “argument.” An “argument ad hominem” (or ...

The holiday season is upon us so you know what that means. It’s time to complain about Apple’s holiday ad. Oh, you thought it was about loving your fellow voyagers on this small blue marble or ...

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THE Israeli government recently raised an interesting question for advertisers: whom can you safely insult? “American Jews” is the wrong answer. An ad campaign urging Jews to return to Israel showed a ...