How Severe is the Problem?

“Many people are likely to be misinformed, not only inaccurate in their factual beliefs but confident that they are right.” So say Kuklinski and colleagues (2000, p.809); modest enough, but in the same article, they find that most people are misinformed about …

Robert Dahl’s On Democracy is a handbook of sorts setting out the basics of his vision of democracy. He more or less articulates a liberal pluralist version of democracy without using that term specifically. The term he does use, polyarchal democracy, he describes as a political system that …

Given the extent of globalization, I’m often surprised when a solution which is obviously better is applied in one place and not another. The case I want to talk about here is the solution to the problem of seating a lot of people in your house. In the U.S., if you want to have any sort of …