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 ...

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 ...

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Even the most admirable societal aims become spiritual distortions when we treat them as ultimate. In City of God, Augustine defines a people or tribe as “an assemblage of reasonable beings bound ...