In light of Gore’s Assault on Reason, suggest a course that may be given to first-year college students to improve the quality of their reasoning powers. What sort of readings, exercises, problems or other educational or training assignments might you suggest would be valuable in order to, for example, improve their ability to de-bias themselves as well as see through manipulative poltical discourse coming from both the right and the left.

For example, would you have them subscribe to both left and right leaning magazines, newspapers, or journals — and if so, which? Would you have them watch both Fox News and MSNBC news and do comparative analyses?