Bachmann does bioethics
Pictured: a human whose dignity is highly questionable Said Michele Bachmann to members of Personhood USA on Tuesday night: I...
Spokesgroups
Radley Balko got quite a lot of hate mail in response to an article he wrote for HuffPo on Occupy...
Biased ! = wrong
Let me say this, right from the start: I love biases. No, I don’t love that they exist, but I...
Spokespeople
Not allowed to be right aboutanything. After posting a clip from Bill Maher’s show in which the comedian mocks the...
The phenomenon of the petty tyrant
Researchers at the Stanford Graduate School of Business decided to examine the relationship between status and power in how people...
Some random musings on “forever”
When I lived in Denmark, a friend told me that no one there receives a prison sentence longer than fourteen...
Who do you admire?
At The Daily Dish, Conor Friedersdorf contemplates the results of a recent Gallup poll asking Americans which men and women...
The trickiness of characterizing empathy in politics, part 1
So as mentioned, I’m working my way through Frans de Waal’s book The Age of Empathy. On my drive I...