‘Soft’ Sciences
Stop Bullying the ‘Soft’ Sciences by Timothy D. Wilson. Once, during a meeting at my university, a biologist mentioned that he was the only faculty member present from a science department. When I corrected him, noting that I was from [...]
Lying Eyes
Adam Sherwin: “The truth about lying: it’s the hands that betray you, not the eyes.” It is often claimed that even the most stone-faced liar will be betrayed by an unwitting eye movement. But new research suggests that that “lying [...]
Religion
HuffPo: American Confidence In Organized Religion At All Time Low According to a recent Gallup poll, the number of Americans who have faith in organized religion is at an all-time low. Only 44 percent of Americans today have a lot [...]
Contributions
Teachers Unions Give Broadly by Alicia Mundy. What do the American Ireland Fund, the Rev. Al Sharpton and the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network have in common? All have received some of the more than $330 million that America’s [...]
Nations
Roger Scruton: Europeans are from nations first Thierry Baudet makes controversial claims in his book, and in his article in the NRC Handelsblad of last week. But he is right about one thing, which is that the project of European [...]
Market
Hotel Pornography and the Market of Morality by Robert T. Miller. The legal institutions of a democratic and capitalist society are designed not to give people what is good and prevent them from getting what is bad; they are designed [...]