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07, 2019
Freud, Woodstock, and Crowd Behavior
When you have a master or a leader, there’s always another master somewhere fighting them off or trying to contest them. The masters of other people can look pretty annoying to you, if not contemptible, irrelevant, reprehensible. I think about Beatlemania, where people were just horrified — What the hell is going on? These four guys with weird floppy haircuts. Or with Elvis, Jimi Hendrix, or any of the other rock stars. The disgust and terror that people have that others are caught up.
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07, 2019
The Mythical Fathers of Psychology
We recognize the Founders of our field because they coined the names for critical movements and gave the early shape and direction to critical ideas. But to be a founder, to parent a movement is all mythology.
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07, 2019
The Battle for the Soul of Civilization
America, like most of the rest of the world, and in many ways even more so, is a high-tech version of Plato’s cave. Self-harming citizens are perpetually fooled into voting against their own best interest.
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06, 2019
Civil Disobedience and the Separation of Powers
From an Arendtian concept of power, we might argue that a more effective way to think about restoring the proper balance of power within the government is civil disobedience.
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06, 2019
Finding Truth: Thinking Critically Through the Campaigns
Knowing whether our beliefs are true or false is a question of the greatest difficulty—in democratic elections it can mean the difference between war and peace. Here is a theory of truth, along with eight concrete and practical ways to cut through the bullshit and understand political language better.
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05, 2019
Three Fundamental Principles in Trump’s American Foreign Policy
Trump’s principles have reshaped the American foreign policy matrix. However, the foreign policy focus of US presidents in their first terms is not always the foreign policy focus at the end of their second terms.
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05, 2019
Santa Claus vs. Black Holes
Journey2Psychology, a project by: Dr. Michael Gordon Mike Gordon is travelling across the world to converse with influential psychologists and
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04, 2019
Are Humans “Natural” Idealists?
by Craig Collins Let me begin by saying that I will be using the words idealism and materialism in this
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04, 2019
Euthanasia, or Mercy Killing
Nathan Nobis from 1000-Word Philosophy examines the arguments pertaining to the difficult issue of euthanasia. Sadly, there are people in
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04, 2019
Dr. Michael Shermer Brings Science to the People
Journey2Psychology, a project by: Dr. Michael Gordon Mike Gordon is travelling across the world to converse with influential psychologists and