Epistemology

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...

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...

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) “

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...