A collection of 37 posts
Personal or collective attitudes that create an invitation to victimhood and infirmity can alter what we expect for ourselves.
Is it possible to see if someone is high in g by their brain activity on a PET scan or fMRI scan – and if so, what does it look like?
Political and ideological indoctrination of children is most effective when it begins early.
Peterson is celebrated in the news media as a champion of free speech and liberal, democratic values, while in fact promoting a far-right worldview.
Rene Girard’s writing on mimesis raises several interesting questions about the current moment.
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.
We do not live in the best of all possible worlds. There are monsters inside each of us. Those monsters must be made coherent, and given their place, or they will consume us.
The value of winning a kayaking trip in a raffle is measured in its consumption utility, not its monetary value.
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.
The answer, it should come as no surprise, is that he uses the very same tactics of evasion and persuasion for which he admires the president.
Ranked by concentrated cutesiness, the ‘original’ smiley faces that launched a fad and first bothered me as a kid didn’t pack the punch of what they would devolve into.
He counsels them to face the fact that life entails much suffering, and that inner and interpersonal conflict are inevitable – not the kind of thing most “satisfied customers” want to hear.
We all have our own narratives of life. You have a “version” of that life that is a story you tell to yourself and others, about what your life has been.
Notwithstanding the ever-expanding reach of Darwinism away from sexuality, the exploration of the evolutionary roots of human sexual behavior is not yet complete.