I’ve written several posts about biases and motivated reasoning. Although both can be adaptive for survival and generally offer more upsides than downsides to decision-making, both can also lead to ...

Pete Rathburn is a copy editor and fact-checker with expertise in economics and personal finance and over twenty years of experience in the classroom. Investopedia / Paige McLaughlin Communism is a ...

An interview with political educator Harmony Goldberg on whether the ideological traditions of the left are helpful for practical organizing. What is ideology? And why does it matter in social ...

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull recently commented that when it comes to Australia’s energy supply: “policymakers have put ideology and politics ahead of engineering and economics”. It’s not uncommon ...

Ideology appears as the common thread of contemporary terrorism But many terrorists have little actual knowledge of the religion or ideology they claim to promote The real story is how an ideology ...

It’s election season in the United States, and I, like many others, find myself contemplating the weighty question of how people can be so stupid. I want a sarcastic lawn sign that reads “I’m an IDIOT ...