What is the Internet Doing to Boomers’ Brains?
By Michael Hobbes Huffpost The last time they spoke, John’s father accused him of being part of the deep state. They have never exactly gelled politically — John, 38, is […]
Tag Archives: Democrats
The Electoral College’s Racist Origins
By Wilfred Codrington III The Atlantic Is a color-blind political system possible under our Constitution? If it is, the Supreme Court’s evisceration of the Voting Rights Act in 2013 did […]
This Republican Party is Not Worth Saving
By Tom Nichols The Atlantic I was a Republican for most of my adult life. I came of political age in 1980, and although I grew up in a working-class […]
How the Pandemic Defeated America
By Ed Yong The Atlantic How did it come to this? A virus a thousand times smaller than a dust mote has humbled and humiliated the planet’s most powerful nation. America […]
What Science Can do for Democracy
By Tina Eliassi-Rad, Henry Farrell, David Garcia, Stephan Lewandowsky, Patricia Palacios, Don Ross, Didier Sornette, Karim Thébault, & Karoline Wiesner Humanities and Social Sciences Communications The Economist recently identified 80 […]
How You’re Tricked Into Believing Fake News
By Katy Steinmetz Time Sitting in front of a computer not long ago, a tenured history professor faced a challenge that billions of us do every day: deciding whether to […]
A Placebo President?
By Tyler Cowen The American Interest When I ponder why the American electorate turned to such an unorthodox President as Donald Trump, I think first of the idea of control. […]
Should the Right to Vote be Restricted to Those With Knowledge?
By Jason Brennan Aeon Who should hold power: the few or the many? Concentrating power in the hands of a few – in monarchy, dictatorship or oligarchy – tends to […]
How the Education Gap is Tearing Politics Apart
By David Runciman The Guardian On 23 February, Donald Trump stood before a rally of cheering supporters to celebrate a thumping victory in the Nevada Republican caucus – his third […]
Moving Beyond Anger
By Martha C. Nussbaum Aeon There’s no emotion we ought to think harder and more clearly about than anger. Anger greets most of us every day – in our personal relationships, […]
