Village Atheists, Village Idiots “But who’s more wrong—the person who droningly insists, jerking like an automaton, that the world is round, has always been round, and will always be round? Or the one who knows that this earth is not a given, and that we can imagine a whole weary planet into new and different […]
How German physicists reacted to the Hiroshima bomb from: October 3, 2016 at 11:10AM
The Power Paradox: The Surprising Science of How We Gain and Lose Influence from: September 28, 2016 at 08:56AM “We know from the now-iconic 1970s Good Samaritan study that the single greatest predictor of uncaring, unkind, and uncompassionate behavior, even among people who have devoted their lives to the welfare of others, is a perceived […]
What If Evolution Bred Reality Out Of Us? In other words, evolution couldn’t care less if you perceive objective reality. It only wants you to have sex successfully. As a consequence, your apprehension of the world is tuned to whatever allows that to happen. Thus, your perceptions at the root level have nothing to do […]
The Trust Variable from: September 26, 2016 at 10:32AM
The Intellectual Yet Idiot “Beware the semi-erudite who thinks he is an erudite. He fails to naturally detect sophistry. The IYI pathologizes others for doing things he doesn’t understand without ever realizing it is his understanding that may be limited. He thinks people should act according to their best interests and he knows their interests, […]
The revolt of the back row kids “[Hillary Clinton] is everything everyone dislikes about the front row kids. And this election is about everyone else throwing them out. Bill Clinton was a back row kid at heart. That is what he came from. (Go visit his hometown. Really.) Trump is what the back row (and […]
Religion without belief “Most Japanese reject religious belief while embracing multiple forms of ritual practice. Are they religious or secular? […] Strong beliefs, I argue, are not an essential feature of religion in Japan. Rather, they are better understood as a feature of the particular monotheistic religions that happen to be dominant in the West. […]
Socialism and Human Nature “Socialist experiments have failed no matter when and where they have been tried. Instead of tranquility and prosperity, they have resulted in strife and impoverishment. Yet socialism keeps on reappearing — albeit in different guises — throughout the world. From Venezuela since the early 2000s to the strong support for Bernie […]
On the shifting role of racism in American slavery from: September 21, 2016 at 09:00AM
Egalitarianism versus Online Education from: September 21, 2016 at 08:54AM
Explaining Preferences for Redistribution from: September 21, 2016 at 12:54AM
Why do people hate the media so much? from: September 20, 2016 at 03:14PM
UNDISCIPLINED RETREAT from: September 19, 2016 at 02:58PM
After Globalism and Identity Politics Since the end of the Cold War, America has been mesmerized by two ideas that have given hazy coherence to the post-1989 world: “globalism” and “identity politics.” Formidable political movements in America and in Europe, still raucous and unrefined, now reject both ideas.
Dr. Who Meets Metal September 6, 2016 at 06:54PM
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Cognitive bias cheat sheet “But you can start by remembering these four giant problems our brains have evolved to deal with over the last few million years : 1. Information overload sucks, so we aggressively filter. 2. Lack of meaning is confusing, so we fill in the gaps. 3. Need to act fast lest we […]
The Insiders versus the Outsiders “The dominant strategy of the outsiders is to focus on the negative, exposing and denouncing the failures, imperfections, and corruption of the insiders. On the left, this means heaping blame on the institutions of capitalism and free markets. On the right, this means heaping blame on the institutions of government. […]