We should work to devise effective solutions to continue that progress, rather resorting to using all men as scapegoats for the violence that remains.
Researchers should systematically assess potential side effects when studying mindfulness treatments.
“We’ve successfully banished the notion of punishment in that realm,” Sapolsky writes. “It may take centuries, but we can do the same in all our current arenas of punishment.”
This requires people to set aside their prejudices and preconceived ideas and engage into a dialogue with those with whom they may disagree or even hate.
At its best, commentary on the science of sex differences has been about method and about evidence, and the knowledge that, with care, these can produce.
Transferring guilt across generations from ancient ancestors to their heirs was highly convenient for religious authorities.
All too often legitimate conversations about policy preference devolve into accusations of moral transgression.
The centripetal tendency, if unchecked, ends in a black hole, in narrow paranoia, in the life-denying singularity of fundamentalism or fascism.
What will it take for this contagion to be seen for what it is, so that its most damaging effects can be prevented?
They witnessed the defeat of the Ottoman Turks at the siege of Vienna, ending a thousand years of implacable Islamic expansion.
To figure out what’s really going on, it’s worth taking a broader look at today’s teens – a generation of kids I call “iGen” – and the environment they’re living in.
If you’re easily offended, it’s hard to understand the world.
Damore stresses that these are differences at a statistical level between large populations and that we should not assume that they are descriptive of any particular individual.
Comedians poke fun at the absurd, unreasonable aspects of our thought, our behaviour and our societies so it is tempting to assume that they are rational themselves.
Sometimes people use it to mean pretend outrage, in which people cry “crocodile tears” over things that don’t really upset them.