Robin Koerner
How the "Unvaccinated" Got It Right
... Using Only the Information Available at the Time Scott Adams is the creator of the famous cartoon strip, Dilbert. It is a strip whose...
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Robin Koerner
- Jan 29
- 8 min
When Compliance Becomes Complicity ...
... And the Answer to (Almost) All of Our Problems With the exception of what remains of the Silent Generation (born before 1946),...
Robin Koerner
- Jan 29
- 11 min
Nothing to Hide? Your Government Will Make Something Up.
A couple of years ago, I returned to my home city of Seattle from the UK, where I had been teaching and visiting family. As I was about...
Robin Koerner
- Dec 19, 2022
- 7 min
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...
Robin Koerner
- Dec 16, 2022
- 8 min
China Is Preparing for War. Taiwan May Have Only One Way To Stop It.
The Chinese People Are Readied for War (Whether They Know It or Not) Each year, I have the pleasure of interviewing hundreds of...
Robin Koerner
- Dec 12, 2022
- 11 min
Lockdown Supporters Are Damned by Their Own Words
Fourteen years ago, I attended an event at an embassy in Manhattan, where I used to live. Having listened to a panel of diplomats discuss...
Robin Koerner
- Sep 17, 2022
- 8 min
What to Do about Privilege: a Royal Standard
Said France’s president Macron to the British people on the occasion of the passing of their Queen, “To you, she was your Queen. To us,...
Robin Koerner
- Jul 5, 2022
- 9 min
Pro-Choice. Pro-Rights. Pro-Law. Pro-SCOTUS
I am not a lawyer; I am not a woman; but I am most definitely an American. I will fight for the right of women to have safe and legal...
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
- Feb 8, 2022
- 10 min
The Politics of Place: Why Proximity Makes Progressives
Across cultures and times, areas of higher population density have been associated with more culturally progressive attitudes. Consider...
Robin Koerner
- Jan 28, 2022
- 16 min
How to Get Compensated Every Time a Corporation Lets You Down
Just Not Good Enough We have all had the experience, time after time, of being let down by some large corporation whose services or...
Robin Koerner
- Feb 23, 2021
- 4 min
Your Success Is All Luck - But You Can Make Luck
“Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled By...
Robin Koerner
- Feb 15, 2021
- 7 min
The Power of Refusal (and a Heuristic for Life)
“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...
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
- Aug 10, 2020
- 9 min
Black Squares Matter: Don’t Let Social Media Turn Virtue Into Vice
In one of my professional roles, Academic Dean of an educational institute, I have the great privilege of interviewing young applicants...
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 17, 2019
- 12 min
Why the Confederate Flag Still Flies
Like the crack in the Liberty Bell, a symbol of America’s founding idea, a crack in American society remains as a symbol of its founding sin
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
- Mar 5, 2019
- 6 min
Don’t Attack MMT. Attack the System It Describes
Imagine that I am a seafaring tyrant who has moored my galleon off a large island. Through my telescope, I see a healthy population...
Robin Koerner
- Oct 29, 2018
- 13 min
How America Made Me White
It took me a couple of seconds to get Stephen Colbert’s joke line, “I don’t see race” when I first heard it. In the USA, the joke works...
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