Robin Koerner
Ideological Possession: Diagnosis and Prevention of the Next Pandemic
Recent years have been dominated by a deadly viral disease. Older forms of the disease have always been present in the population at...
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Robin Koerner
- Feb 10, 2022
- 21 min
I Know What Makes You You
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...
Robin Koerner
- Nov 9, 2020
- 5 min
Half of Politics Is the Refusal to Be Imposed Upon
One of the most interesting aspects of political psychology concerns the gap between the reasons for which people believe they hold their...
Robin Koerner
- Mar 20, 2020
- 9 min
Deadly Bias and COVID-19: Are We On the Right Track?
Has anyone done the math - or are we just reacting; and if we are, have we (to adulterate a fashionable expression in progressive circles) “
Robin Koerner
- Jun 7, 2019
- 6 min
The Liars We Like – Why We Choose Transparency Over Truth
Many people who favorably view Donald Trump and politicians like him, talk up his “authenticity” or his “telling it as it is”. Even many...
Robin Koerner
- Oct 5, 2018
- 31 min
How Facts Get Chosen and Minds Get Changed
One of my recent articles, “The Mistake You Make in Every Political Argument” (Mistake) made the claim that most political arguments that...
Robin Koerner
- Aug 16, 2018
- 14 min
The Mistake You Make in Every Political Argument
We’ve all been sufficiently frustrated by the gap between the values someone espouses and the policies they support that we’ve gotten...
Robin Koerner
- Mar 27, 2018
- 6 min
The Diagnosis & Treatment of Ideological Possession
Jordan Peterson, the Canadian professor of psychology who in the last year has become North America’s most popular public intellectual,...
Robin Koerner
- Dec 17, 2017
- 17 min
Political Scientism – Beware the Enlightened Ones
It’s Not What You Believe. It’s How You Believe It George Orwell’s novel 1984 has been selling in large numbers to people scared of a...
Robin Koerner
- Dec 17, 2017
- 37 min
Purism Isn’t Principled in an Impure World
(or: Why the Perfect Is the Enemy of the Good) Margaret Thatcher once said that “politics at its purest is philosophy in action”. As...
Robin Koerner
- Apr 11, 2017
- 14 min
Authoritarians to the Right of Me, Authoritarians to the Left
Authoritarians to the Right of Me Trump’s election caused a spike in sales of George Orwell’s famous novel, 1984 – apparently to people...
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