The Perils of Affective Polarization Our increasing desire to isolate ourselves from supporters of the opposite party can have dire consequences. Julian Adorney 10 Nov 2023 · 8 min read
Talking Past Each Other: How Ideographs Hamper Mutual Understanding If someone wants to start a diversity initiative at your child’s school, ask them how they define “diversity.” When someone demands a more inclusive workplace, ask them how they are using the word “inclusive.” Erec Smith 20 Oct 2023 · 5 min read
On Political Hatred On everything from Syrian refugees through Brexit and climate change to so-called gender-affirmative medicine, people take a totalizing approach to disagreement: either you agree with me, or you are despicable. Holly Lawford-Smith 24 Aug 2023 · 7 min read
What Can Artificial Intelligence Teach Us About Political Polarization? Fortunately, there are measures that each of us can take to keep the excesses of dimensionality reduction in check. Unfortunately, they all require a potentially uncomfortable dose of humility. Jeremie Harris 27 Oct 2018 · 5 min read
Single Issue Campaigning and the Polarisation Problem Campaigns that mischaracterise issues and stigmatise opponents reduce the complex to the simplistic in ways that are fundamentally unhelpful Ali Goldsworthy and Rob Blackie 9 Oct 2018 · 8 min read
Three Sources of Political Polarisation It is puzzling how smart people can diverge so much on political issues. Especially when their lines of reasoning are completely delineated, covering much of the arguments in dispute. Jazi Zilber 2 Nov 2015 · 3 min read
