Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately...

Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Di...

There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The adjective 'Darwinian' used to refer to ruthless competition; you used to r...

Racism, because it favors color over talent...

Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful d...

Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are...

People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to co...

If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both. Anarchy is...

Northeastern and most coastal states will vote for the candidate who is more closely aligned with international cooperation and engagement, secularism and science, gun co...

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not...

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our un...

A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism...