"I want Barack Obama to fail and I want to help ensure he does. If Barack Obama is successful in implementing his stated agenda, America will fail and the American dream will die for millions. We already know Barack Obama's... Full story...
Clay Shirky ponders trust on the web: Authority...performs a dual function; looking to authorities is a way of increasing the likelihood of being right, and of reducing the penalty for being wrong.
A reader said the current counter-recession policies felt like "Mission Accomplished" all over again.
Stanislas Dehaene, chair of Experimental Cognitive Psychology at the Collège de France, gives his view of the brain: What I am proposing is that the human brain is a much more constrained organ than we think, and that it places.
Joe Kloc examines why we get creeped out by lifelike robots and lifeless bodies: Disturbing experiences that feel both familiar and strange are instances of the “uncanny,” an intuitive concept, yet one that has defied simple explanation for more than.
Stephen Williams reviews the latest work by Bruce Ellis Benson: The argument in this volume is that Nietzsche retained his native Pietism.
Graeme Wood gets caught up in the frenzy: After and during the Saturday victory, fans set me on fire twice.
Carl Zimmer reports: Despite the late appearance of higher mathematics, there is growing evidence that numbers are not really a recent invention - not even remotely.
Heather MacDonald doesn't appreciate how the faithful connect religion to ethics: Would someone please provide an example of a.
Michael Fitzgerald sorts through a number of studies on the economic effects of religion: Among the most provocative findings have come from Robert Barro, a renowned economist at Harvard, and his wife, Rachel McCleary, a researcher at Harvard’s Taubman Center.
David Benjamin: There are no lies in Sarah's book; nor in her life, nor in her heart. Utterances that seem untrue are not lies, because Sarah believes them true.
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