Existential panic, epistemic uncertainty and anti-elitism go a long way in explaining the Trump voter mindset. http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story/2017/01/trump_sold_america_… (View Post)
It's clear that you didn't read the piece, because even one of the architects of Reagan's second-term policy knew it was much more complicated than that. Since he was my boss for a year, you can bet … (View Post)
There's no such thing as "evil." What we think of as evil is self-interested behavior improperly channeled in a cooperative social context. If you really believe in evil, you have to believ… (View Post)
Before you try to fit a round analogy in a square hole, you might read Steve Sestanovich's "Did the West Undo The East" from a 1993 special edition of The National Interest. Or you can just… (View Post)