The RSA’s Chief Executive Matthew Taylor explores the meaning of the RSA’s strapline ’21st Century Enlightenment’. How might this idea might help us meet the challenges the world faces today,…
More in the way of (what should be) brutally embarrassing dereliction of duty by congress. Demand the Pentagon save money, prevent them from doing it in a logical way. Selfishly…
There are always shades of grey in politics. Even for known liberal blogger extraordinaire Matt Yglesias. Always a fan of any political analysis involving subtlety and pragmatism, I wanted to…
Before rendering judgment on one party for downplaying the cognitive dissonance sometimes created by the clash of science and faith, I think it’s important to note that representatives of both…
What does a disgusting image have to do with how you vote? Equipped with surveys and experiments, psychologist David Pizarro demonstrates a correlation between sensitivity to disgusting cues — a…
“What’s the lesson here? It’s that morality binds us and blinds us. We all get sucked into tribal moral communities and enmeshed in their narratives. Morality binds us into…
Great article from Bob Greene at CNN.com. It is kind of absurd to me that, while some insults about being too far to one side of the spectrum are still…
Timothy Noah at Slate has an amazing and unsettling set of visual representations of data gathered by various political scientists on increasing income inequality in our country, and analysis of the…
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