Arguing that America's prosperity is threatened if we prioritize the education and mental health of our children, Mr. Brooks lets ideological loyalty trump logic.
Despite many attempts, no compromise was possible between this need for ideological affirmation and the logic of Darwin's worldview.
Michael H. Goldhaber Oakland, Calif., Nov. 14, 2010 To the Editor: Only rational discourse based on data and rigorous analyses, rather than ideological posturing and pretzel logic, can bring resolution to the ailing American economy.
Mirza Ali Chadwell Heath, Essex The news media's and politicians' aggrandisement of Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel's rampage in Nice as a "terrorist" attack is to grant this outrage more logic and ideological basis than it deserves.
In fact, even Mr. Frank's more credible arguments here are undermined by his ideological certainty, his reductive logic and his hectoring tone: some of the very qualities he so detests in the conservatives he tries to eviscerate in these pages.
She's done it before on women's issues, when a Fox commentator called maternity leave a "racket"; perhaps that makes it easier for her colleagues to reassure themselves that it was a girl thing, and pretend, as they fall through the holes in their logic, that the ideological ground under them is still there.
Their ideological fallacy reveal their warped logic and ill-informed and unauthentic sources, which they turn to in order to justify their insatiable desire for power, control and bloodshed.
Jamison is not blind to the ideological implications of the twelve-step logic, the way that it forces everyone to read from the same script.
But even if you accept the Coalition's ideological view of the world, the logic breaks down if the companies and wealthy individuals benefiting from the economic growth don't actually pay much tax.
