Irony and Analogy: Uncovering Implicit Biases – Wanda Sykes on the Opioid Health Crisis
In the following, comedian Wanda Sykes wonders why African Americans have suffered much less, if at all, from the current opioid health crisis. Ironically,...
Special Pleading in Fox and Friends’ Lingerie Football Romp: A Critical Thinking Lesson.
I employ a segment from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart titled “Fox & Friends’ Lingerie Football Romp” (2009 season) in my critical thinking...
Of Validity, Soundness, and Sarah Palin as a Russian Spy: A Critical Thinking Lesson.
I employ a segment from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart titled “From Russia with Gov” (2011 season) in my critical thinking class to...
Did You Get the Memo? Marx, Alienation, and Office Space
Few comedies depict the banal, Kafkaesque day-to-day of working life as well as Mike Judge’s 1999 film Office Space. When teaching Marx on the...
Reality Shows and Appeal to Emotion
The appeal to emotion fallacy can be introduced via the Key & Peele (Comedy Central) video "Who Thinks They Can Dance?" In the video,...
A Boring Class and Philosophy of Education
A Boring Class is a short animated film about the monotony of traditional education, viewed in a comic and relatable way. The video raises...
Should Robots Have Rights? Lt. Commander Data v. The United Federation of Planets
In the following clip from “The Measure of a Man,” episode nine of the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1989), we...
Is it Better to Be Socrates Dissatisfied or Homer Simpson Satisfied? Higher and Lower...
A clip from The Simpsons Emmy-award winning episode HOMR (Season 12, Episode 9) provides a vivid illustration—and critique of—the contrast between higher and lower...
Ethical Dilemmas in the Pharmacy (Teaching on TikTok)
This video is of an ethical dilemma posed by a Pharmacy student and illustrates the conflicts between respecting autonomy (by keeping medical information confidential)...
Thank You for Arguing
The dark comedy Thank You For Smoking (2005) focuses on how lobbyist Nick Naylor uses crafty rhetorical tactics to promote the interests of Big...