Robin KoernerAug 109 minBlack Squares Matter: Don’t Let Social Media Turn Virtue Into ViceIn one of my professional roles, Academic Dean of an educational institute, I have the great privilege of interviewing young applicants (...
Robin KoernerJun 113 minAt Times Like These: From Just Cause to JusticeHistory churns up many times like these – times when a deep and persistent injustice is widely perceived and met by a singular focus and ...
Robin KoernerMar 219 minDeadly 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 KoernerNov 12, 20194 minPutting Country Before Party to Secure Democracy and BrexitNigel Farage is a political hero. In the books that shall be written about how the United Kingdom became again a self-determined, democra...
Robin KoernerJun 17, 201912 minWhy the Confederate Flag Still FliesLike 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 KoernerJun 7, 20196 minThe Liars We Trust – Why We Choose Transparency Over TruthMany people who favorably view Donald Trump and politicians like him, talk up his “authenticity” or his “telling it as it is”. Even many ...
Robin KoernerApr 10, 20198 minIn the Mother of Parliaments, This Is How Democracy DiesDemocracy in the U.K. became defunct [when] parliament criminalized the implementation of the result of the Brexit referendum.
Robin KoernerOct 9, 201810 minKavanaugh’s Resignation Speech Jordan Peterson has broken the internet (again) with his Tweet that, “If confirmed, Kavanaugh should step down.” Many Peterson-favoring c...
Robin KoernerOct 6, 201831 minHow 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 KoernerAug 16, 201814 minThe Mistake You Make in Every Political ArgumentWe’ve all been sufficiently frustrated by the gap between the values someone espouses and the policies they support that we’ve gotten int...
Robin KoernerMay 8, 20188 minHow to Win Elections Out of NowhereMost successful political insurgencies share a few common necessary conditions, which must be understood by any political outsider who wa...
Robin KoernerMar 28, 20186 minThe Diagnosis & Treatment of Ideological PossessionJordan Peterson, the Canadian professor of psychology who in the last year has become North America’s most popular public intellectual, h...
Robin KoernerJan 26, 201814 minMassive Political Change Depends on Stories – not ArgumentsPhilosophy Talks. History Walks. As a political activist and someone who trains others in “the art of political persuasion”, I teach a go...
Robin KoernerDec 18, 201717 minPolitical Scientism – Beware the Enlightened OnesIt’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 lur...
Robin KoernerApr 12, 201714 minAuthoritarians to the Right of Me, Authoritarians to the LeftAuthoritarians to the Right of Me Trump’s election caused a spike in sales of George Orwell’s famous novel, 1984 – apparently to people w...
Robin KoernerSep 5, 20156 minNo Sex Please: We're CalifornianRape may represent the greatest possible violation against a human being except, perhaps, for murder. Any decent person sympathizes with ...
Robin KoernerSep 5, 20157 minYour Problem with Guns or Gays Is Not PoliticalLast month, I did something I’d done only once before: I went to a range and shot some guns. Lots of guns. All shapes, ages and sizes. Th...
