Why do lies emerge in such huge numbers and why do lies have such long half-lives?
Society
Building a new religion
Fact-checking an authoritarian’s statements is a meaningless endeavor. What he says has no relation to epistemology.
Is Trumpism fascism?
A comparison of Trump’s policies and executive orders with a classic definition of fascism by Robert Paxton.
Guess who said this?
A very stable genius.
Social and instrumental normativity
Those who cannot explain themselves or cannot be moved by the reasons offered by others, those who are “deaf to” the persuasion of advisors, are rightly judged to be of diminished responsibility and are treated differently by law.
All bets are off
Outgoing US president voices hopes during Berlin visit that Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will defend democratic values and rule of law.
Nation-level self-harm
On open debate versus the right not to be offended.
We are failing the mentally ill
Why is the healthcare system failing the mentally ill?
Go figure!
A Brexit paradox.
An immigrant’s advice
I started writing on this post in the aftermath of the riots in Husby near Stockholm in 2013. I thought I’d share some hypotheses about why I never rioted and instead became a rather typical middle class, reasonably well-educated and somewhat boring citizen, with a clean criminal record (bar a Continue Reading