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...

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...

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...

In one of my professional roles, Academic Dean of an educational institute, I have the great privilege of interviewing young applicants...

History churns up many times like these – times when a deep and persistent injustice is widely perceived and met by a singular focus and...

Has anyone done the math - or are we just reacting; and if we are, have we (to adulterate a fashionable expression in progressive circles) “

Nigel Farage is a political hero. In the books that shall be written about how the United Kingdom became again a self-determined,...

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

Many people who favorably view Donald Trump and politicians like him, talk up his “authenticity” or his “telling it as it is”. Even many...

Democracy in the U.K. became defunct [when] parliament criminalized the implementation of the result of the Brexit referendum.

Jordan Peterson has broken the internet (again) with his Tweet that, “If confirmed, Kavanaugh should step down.” Many Peterson-favoring...

One of my recent articles, “The Mistake You Make in Every Political Argument” (Mistake) made the claim that most political arguments that...

We’ve all been sufficiently frustrated by the gap between the values someone espouses and the policies they support that we’ve gotten...

Most successful political insurgencies share a few common necessary conditions, which must be understood by any political outsider who...

Jordan Peterson, the Canadian professor of psychology who in the last year has become North America’s most popular public intellectual,...

Philosophy Talks. History Walks. As a political activist and someone who trains others in “the art of political persuasion”, I teach a...

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...

Authoritarians to the Right of Me Trump’s election caused a spike in sales of George Orwell’s famous novel, 1984 – apparently to people...