The 1990s: “I Need Guns. Lots of Guns” But Go Easy on the Books It was at the very end of my second year at Cambridge that I visited its...

During these horrifically sad days, like so many others around the world, I have been listening to the unfolding of the events in...

This is the most censorious time of my life. Considering how old I am, that’s saying something – but not anything that will surprise...

What is a person? Or to put the question more personally, what are you? I don’t mean “what are you physically?” No one is referring to...

Across cultures and times, areas of higher population density have been associated with more culturally progressive attitudes. Consider...

Just Not Good Enough We have all had the experience, time after time, of being let down by some large corporation whose services or...

Two months ago, I flew to my native England to deal with the passing of my father. For years, his now-widow had been by his side to help...

An unvaccinated person who doesn't have COVID puts others at risk exactly as much as a vaccinated one - NO RISK AT ALL. My having a...

If you have a safe and convenient means of protecting yourself from danger that does not hurt others in the short-run or long-run, take...

Love Doesn't Wait On Understanding Love doesn’t have to understand its object fully. Indeed, it never can. As for love, so for empathy...

“Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled By...

“It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” - Somerset Maugham This quotation...

We tend to think of our love for a person like anything else – as something we either have or don’t have. But I think the emotional...

I am not a Democrat. I am not a Republican. I am, however, an American – a status I spent 12 years of my life and tens of thousands of...

Love is addictive – neurochemically speaking. So it makes sense that the loss of a love relationship can feel utterly unbearable – like...

One of the quotes that I have returned to more than most is from the C17 French mathematician, Blaise Pascal, about something that in...

From a peer-reviewed paper by John P. A. Ioannidis, a Stanford University professor who is highly regarded in evidence-based medicine,...

One of the most interesting aspects of political psychology concerns the gap between the reasons for which people believe they hold their...

Quietly in the background of my life over the last year and a half or so, I've been working with volunteers to whom I am profoundly...