Reason and Reality in an Era of Conspiracy
Our memories are deeply fallible and highly suggestible.
Stephen T. Asma
· 12 min read
Politics
A collection of 532 posts
On the Demise of Our Public Language
You are sick to death with the unrelenting abuse of language in public life.
Brian Russell Graham
· 6 min read
Sex Through the Looking Glass
What began as a drive toward liberation thus becomes tyranny. What was normal becomes antisocial; what was malign becomes laudatory.
Howard Schwartz
· 5 min read
American Centrism Has Failed
Hillary Clinton was evidently a centrist all along, prizing vague pragmatism, hawkish foreign policy and entrenched norms instead of a unique political vision.
Alexander Blum
· 8 min read
How the Politics of the Left Lost Its Way
One important – and overlooked – effect was how it changed the idea of the term “Left” in political terminology.
Geoffrey M Hodgson
· 5 min read
Against Fatalism: The Limits of Money in Politics
The poor could never rise to the top of Roman politics; the common people could never seize the political initiative; and it was axiomatic that the richer an individual citizen was, the more political weight he should have.
J. Andrew
· 4 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
· 3 min read