Robin KoernerMar 13 minWe've Done This TooDuring these horrifically sad days, like so many others around the world, I have been listening to the unfolding of the events in...
Robin KoernerFeb 176 minBeyond Censorship: Twitter Demanded that I LieThis is the most censorious time of my life. Considering how old I am, that’s saying something – but not anything that will surprise...
Robin KoernerFeb 910 minThe Politics of Place: Why Proximity Makes ProgressivesAcross cultures and times, areas of higher population density have been associated with more culturally progressive attitudes. Consider...
Robin KoernerSep 10, 20212 minOnly my disease status - NOT my vaccine status - can affect you.An unvaccinated person who doesn't have COVID puts others at risk exactly as much as a vaccinated one - NO RISK AT ALL. My having a...
Robin KoernerApr 28, 20213 minThink of Others When You’re Offered that VaccineIf 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...
Robin KoernerMar 26, 20214 minFocusing on What Divides Us Divides UsLove Doesn't Wait On Understanding Love doesn’t have to understand its object fully. Indeed, it never can. As for love, so for empathy...
Robin KoernerJan 22, 20215 minThe Common Objects of Our Love – Biden’s Inauguration SpeechI 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...
Robin KoernerNov 10, 20205 minHalf of Politics Is the Refusal to Be Imposed UponOne of the most interesting aspects of political psychology concerns the gap between the reasons for which people believe they hold their...
Robin KoernerOct 15, 20201 minHumilitarian - my latest (and last?) politically motivated projectQuietly 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...
Robin KoernerAug 10, 20209 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 11, 20203 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 21, 20209 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,...
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 Like – 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...
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...
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...