
Interview with Steven Pinker
In your book, Enlightenment Now, you have argued against the commonly accepted views on inequality – most importantly against the Gini coefficient, arguing that it is not the same as poverty or unfairness and that […]
In your book, Enlightenment Now, you have argued against the commonly accepted views on inequality – most importantly against the Gini coefficient, arguing that it is not the same as poverty or unfairness and that […]
– Michele Moody-Adams Looking more closely at the invective from the American examples above, there isn’t anything especially artful or inventive about disrupting a Presidential speech by yelling out “you lie” because one disagrees with […]
– Bruce E Cain While lottery government was an important feature in some of the earliest democracies, it has until recently played a relatively minor role in modern democratic design. Sortition in the Athenian state […]
– Manuel DeLanda The various relations between the military and technology are best discussed at a level intermediate between the micro-level of the individual and the macro-level of society as a whole. The mesolevel, as […]
– Syed Sayeed In all ages, everywhere, there have been brave souls with exemplary courage of conviction who stood for truth and were willing to make great sacrifices for that truth. The truths they were […]
– Bart Schultz The original 1892 version of the American Pledge of Allegiance, which appeared in the family magazine The Youth’s Companion, read simply “I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which […]