The slippery slope is a familiar label for many instances of this phenomenon: when someone says "I oppose partial-birth abortion bans because they might lead to broader abortion restrictions ...

The cost-lowering slippery slope has eliminated that possibility, at least unless there's a constitutional barrier to B or unless the government intentionally makes B expensive to implement, ...

Logicians call the slippery slope a classic logical fallacy. There’s no reason to reject doing one thing, they say, just because it might open the door for some undesirable extreme; permitting ...

But slippery-slope arguments are not always incorrect, and they offer insight about the nature of modern progressivism. Usually, rejection of slippery-slope arguments occurs in the context of their ...

IDEAS The slippery slope of surveillance is real It’s an overused metaphor, but sometimes it truly fits. Apple’s new technology for scanning phones for illicit material is a perfect example.