I write concerning an  essay by Jay Sterling Silver on the topic of attorney-client privilege. A few paragraphs in, Mr. Silver states: “Normally, if President Donald Trump ever got anything right—even Halley’s comet passes along every 70-some years—I might very well not, out of sheer anger, concede it.”

I had to stop reading what might have been a very informative article right there. For an author to admit that he would not concede the veracity of an indisputably true statement made by a person to whom the author has a negative emotional reaction, is to admit that the author accepts and adopts logical fallacies in his writing—the ad hominem attack being one of the worst such fallacies.