by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 2, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump
Jones only recently became one of those children. “I’ve been on the side of evolution my whole life,” he confesses. Not so much the science end, he wanted me to understand. His had been the partying wing of agnosticism. Then his fiancé persuaded him to start attending...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 28, 2020 | • Politics, Behavior, Cognitive Bias, Psychology
Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds The economist J.K. Galbraith once wrote, “Faced with a choice between changing one’s mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy with the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 28, 2020 | • Politics, Behavior, Psychology
The surprising reason people change their minds Wherever you look at the moment, we seem divided – Brexiteer or Remainer, pro-President Trump or against. And no matter how much we argue, none of us appear to change our minds. Whether at the dinner table or on...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 16, 2020 | • Politics, Black Lives Matter, Racism
Ibram Kendi, one of the nation’s leading scholars of racism, says education and love are not the answer It’s a Wednesday night at a bookstore in a well-off part of Washington, D.C., and every seat is taken. More than 100 people spill into the aisles or...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 13, 2020 | • Politics, Domestic Terrorism, Donald Trump
Opinion | Trump is spreading a dangerous conspiracy theory about antifa PRESIDENT TRUMP spread a deranged and dangerous conspiracy theory this week when he accused a 75-year-old man pushed to the ground by police in Buffalo of faking the force of his fall – as...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 8, 2020 | Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs
> You Can’t Have a Prosperous Economy Without an Entrepreneurial Government – Evonomics Capitalism Ending the state vs market myth The debate about the relative roles of the state and the market in capitalist economies tends to swing from side to side...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 25, 2020 | • Politics, Behavior, Coronavirus, Critical Thinking, Partisan Idiocy, Pseudoscience, Psychology, Reason & Rational Thinking, Right Wing Lunacy
The 7 traits of conspiratorial thinking Science misinformation and conspiracy theories have surged during coronavirus. This guide can help you identify...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 24, 2020 | • Politics, Critical Thinking, Irrational Thinking, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Republicans
We Need to Speak Honestly About the GOP’s Evolution Into a Conspiracy Cult One of the challenges in analyzing modern American politics is accurately describing the Republican Party without seeming unserious and hyperbolic. Major publications are understandably...
