The Postmodern Coup
Once you’ve discredited reason and disowned objective truth, you cannot make an argument in the traditional sense. So you must argue some other way.
Category: Psychology
The Long Dissolution
A few did not put it aside, and from 1962 forward there existed in America a small population of people who had understood something the majority had declined to understand — and who would be proved right again, and again, and again, for sixty years, all the while being called cranks the entire time.
How We Got Here: The Hollow Stasis
It was an age, aptly titled the ‘Wonder Years’ by a nostalgic show of my childhood, where the question ‘How would we know?’ was on everyone’s minds, confident that they would continue to answer it with little miracles of modern life.
The Fauci Affair and Our Epistemological Crisis
Even when the underlying facts are public, undisputed in their particulars, available to anyone who wants them, the country divides cleanly in two the moment anyone asks what they show. We have grown so used to this that we have stopped finding it strange.
It is very strange.
Were the 2025 Indiana Hoosiers the Greatest College Football Team Ever?
From the book Never Daunted: How Curt Cignetti Took Indiana Football from Worst to First and Changed the Game. In the hours and days after the
The Reign of the Masses: Ortega y Gasset a Hundred Years On
Those attuned to the socio-political currents of our time will find themselves haunted by a perplexing question: Why, in an age of unprecedented material comfort,
How to Use Gratitude to Attract Things to Be Grateful For
On Average, Americans say ‘Thank you’ six times a day or about 2,200 times a year. But is it enough? Recent studies show that sincere
Rising to the Occasion: Using Strategic Challenges to Improve
Without a challenge, a creative response is not possible.
Use the Difficulty: How to Turn Obstacles into Opportunities
When Michael Caine was a young actor, he was rehearsing an improv play and got stuck. The actor in the scene before him had thrown
In Praise of Overthinking
There are not many things that people agree on these days, but one of them might be overthinking. Everywhere you look, people are sharing how
The Power of Visual Thinking
In 1966, a Texas pilot drew a triangle on the back of a napkin and changed aviation forever.
Harnessing the Zeigarnik Effect for Memory Retention and Motivation
John McEnroe was practicing before his 1984 Wimbledon final and abruptly quit. He said he felt great and didn’t want to leave his best form
The Logic of Imagination
Increasingly, we see right and left-brain thinking as separate and distinct. But for most creative endeavors, we need both.
How to Solve Problems by Starting with the End and Working Backward
By working backward, we are able to gain perspective on the problem and hone in on the direction we want to take from the start.
The Problem with the Linda Problem
Like most Behavioral Economics work, the experiment is founded on a basic fallacy that, if anything, proves that the researchers are the ones that are irrational.
Tearing at the Seams: Tribalism in Postmodern America
If you ask average Americans what they most like about their country, they might well tell you ‘Diversity’. If you ask them what they find
Logic in the Time of Corona
The first casualty in the Coronavirus Pandemic was reason. Even before the WHO Issued its first warnings, experts were jumping to conclusions and average people
How to Disagree: Three Rules to Make the Most of Our Divisiveness
There is a rule that you should never talk about politics or religion in polite company. I’ve never been a fan. What else is worth
There Is No Such Thing as Unconditional Love—and That’s a Good Thing
If there is principle that every self-help guru and relationship specialist can agree on, it’s that the only way to lasting relationships is through ‘unconditional
The Year Identity Trumped Reality
In 2016 we were introduced to the concept of ‘fake news’. In 2017 we didn’t need fake news because reality itself had grown so absurd.