Via this week’s Science Saturday on Bloggingheads TV, I find Jonathan Haidt’s TED Talk (embedded…
Category: Human Nature
I must say I agree wholeheartedly with David Friedman: One interesting–and irritating–feature of online argument,…
On behalf of America, I am staging an intervention. Country first! David Brooks is evidently…
Democratic politics, in the end, is not about rational deliberation. It is about coalitional signaling.…
Speaking of McCloskey, I’m enjoying her response to critics [doc] of Bourgeois Virtues. I’m symapthetic…
I’m really glad I got a chance to finally read A Theory of Moral Sentiments…
Steven Berlin Johnson writes: But sitting here at forty, for whatever reason, I’m imagining it…
Gated summaries of gated papers are annoying, but the result is interesting, so I thought…
I’m sympathetic to but ultimately must disagree with Seth Stevenson’s take on procrastination, a topic…
Tyler and Alex’s son give their impressions of the party at Robin Hanson’s lovely home…