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 21, 2020 | • Politics, Philosophy
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 | 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...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 23, 2020 | • Politics
We Are All Aboard the Pequod – PopularResistance.Org The most prescient portrait of the American character and our ultimate fate as a species is found in Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick.” Melville makes our murderous obsessions, our hubris,...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 19, 2020 | • Politics
A really smart young journalist Nathan J. Robinson (@NathanJRobinson), a columnist for The Guardian US, and Editor-in-Chief of Current Affairs magazine, wrote a book entitled Why You Should Be a Socialist that was published back on December 10th, 2019. More recently...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 14, 2020 | • Politics, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs
The neoliberal era is ending. What comes next? In a crisis, what was once unthinkable can suddenly become inevitable. We’re in the middle of the biggest societal shakeup since the second world war. And neoliberalism is gasping its last breath. So from higher...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 13, 2020 | Coronavirus, Donald Trump, Science, Science Based Medicine
He Was a Science Star. Then He Promoted a Questionable Cure for Covid-19. Feature The man behind Trump’s favorite unproven treatment has made a great career assailing orthodoxy. His claim of a 100 percent cure rate shocked scientists around the world. Didier...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 13, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, The 2020 Presidential Race
How Trump lost his Electoral College edge to Biden The idea that President Trump possesses an enormous Electoral College advantage in November’s election has become an article of faith among thinkers across the political...
