Voices: ‘Slippery slope’ or ‘generational reset’? Readers on social media ban

‘Slippery slope’ or ‘generational reset’? Readers split on Keir Starmer’s social media ban for under-16s - YOUR VIEWS: Our ...
Reason

Slippery Slope June: An Introduction to Thinking About Slippery Slope Arguments

In the registration-to-confiscation scenario, only the latter two mechanisms seem fairly plausible to me; in other scenarios, others may be more plausible. And there are of course mechanisms that may ...
Reason

Slippery Slope June: Eleven General Thoughts About Slippery Slope Arguments

[This month, I'm serializing my 2003 Harvard Law Review article, The Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope; in yesterday's post, I laid out some examples and definitions, but here I want to flag several ...
City Journal

In Defense of Slippery-Slope Arguments

Every now and then, a piece of philosophical theory breaks into the popular consciousness, such that people without any philosophical education regularly refer to it. One such theory is the rejection ...