Whack-a-Fallacy: A Game for the Election Season

We should listen carefully to what our politicians are saying. We may not be playing a game, but we may well be getting played.
Whack-a-Fallacy: A Game for the Election Season
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Jeff Minick
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In Whack-a-Mole, an arcade game invented by the Japanese nearly 50 years ago, moles or other figures pop up from different holes mounted on a playing cabinet while players use a soft mallet to try to knock them back into place. Search online for “whack-a-mole game,” and you’ll find lots of variations based on the original.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.