How abnormal is Trump? Today Jeffrey Immelt w rote in his annual letter to GE stockholders that basic concepts like "innovation, prod...

Today Muhammad Ali Jr. was detained by border agents as he returned to the US from Jamaica. He was held for nearly 2 hours as they repeated...

We like the simple notion of a person being either smart or stupid. It's tempting to say, "She's intelligent," or "He...

An overlooked possibility of the seemingly different worldviews of Americans is this: people actually do live in different worlds. In The ...

There is a lot of criticism of Trump for his tweets designed to punish companies he's mad at or reward the companies he's happy with...

Trump's ban on immigrants shows a disrespect for our constitution and an ignorance of modern economic realities.  Let's start w...

Obama was my kind of president. He was a wonk who guided his decisions by probabilities. He was compassionate and careful. He had a clear s...

In his first week, Trump moved towards building a wall and banning Muslims from entry into the country. He's keeping his promises. ...

Inventions matter more than people.  There are two kinds of inventions that fuel progress. Technological inventions like your smart phone...

Trump knows there were millions of illegal votes cast and that climate change is fiction in spite of a lack of evidence for the first and an...

The philosopher Robert Nozick offered a challenge in defense of the minimal state. Try to imagine a single utopia suited to the desires and ...

Without the support of the "abortion is murder" people, Trump would have lost. These people pretend to understand Christianity bet...

Trump has been critical - even dismissive - of Reagan and George W. Bush, Obama and Clinton. Meanwhile, he's had nothing but good to say...

Huston Smith died Friday at 97. He authored what became the standard comparative religions textbook (it sold about three million copies), T...

If you bring together parents of little ones aged 0 to 3, you'll hear them discuss very similar - nearly identical - stages of developme...

This little tidbit from Chris Jennings' fascinating Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism . The Owen mentioned is Robert Owen w...

The West led progress for centuries. Not because of superior genes but because of superior memes. The social inventions that have transforme...

Even some of my California friends had posted things like, "If you subtract California from the national vote, Trump won the popular vo...

Even an event as lovely as Christmas becomes a forum for dissent and proselytizing. It's not enough to simply let people enjoy the holid...

"There are known unknowns and unknown unknowns," Rumsfeld famously said. With the incoming Trump administration we might now say,...