Thinking Out Aloud

It is a commonplace that the victors write history. But which victors? The victors that are claimed to write history are normally taken to ...

During a post on how the US Democrats need to get their act together for the good of the United States, IT guru and long-time blogger Eric...

If you assume some factor is behind everything, it is very easy to find it everywhere you look—you just project it onto phenomena. Marxists...

We humans are excellent at motivated reasoning : taking a preferred framing and using it to "explain" events. The more highly edu...

It has become something of an analytical commonplace to see the rise of populist nationalism (or national populism )--the development of na...

Multiculturalism has become a sacred marker of progressivism: one absolutely has to be in favour of multiculturalism, or one is not a good...