One Year Later: Reflections on #MeToo
Social movements, like revolutions, tend to follow a similar cycle in the process of rewiring certain beliefs and norms of behavior. This cycle goes as follows: right-to-centre, centre-to-left,...
View ArticleA Sound Ecological Policy Cannot Be Achieved Within a Capitalist Framework
Christian Stache interviews Victor Wallis about resistance in the German Hambach Forest, class politics, technology, progress and an ecological-economic conversion. This interview by Christian Stache...
View ArticleLady Gaga and Moral Reasoning
Lady Gaga rightly encourages us to respect and accept all people, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. But at this juncture Lady Gaga's thinking become problematic. Respecting and...
View ArticleHannah Arendt’s Political Thought
Arendt understands “politics” as public debate by a community about meaningful aspects of their shared life together. She witnessed the collapse of politics, in this sense, under Nazi totalitarianism.
View ArticlePsychologist on a Journey (or, Why I hit the road)
Journey2Psychology, A Project by: Dr. MIchael Gordon Mike Gordon is travelling across the world to converse with influential Psychologists and discover the stories behind their work. This journey will...
View ArticleOrienting Towards Dr. Mike Posner
Journey2Psychology, A Project by: Dr. MIchael Gordon Mike Gordon is travelling across the world to converse with influential Psychologists and discover the stories behind their work. This journey will...
View ArticleChina’s ‘social credit system’: What would Lao Tzu say?
By: Brannon Gerling Can China’s new ‘social credit system’ ethically enlighten its citizens? How would Lao Tzu (6th c. B.C.E.), the central figure in Taoism—that cherished self-exiled sage sapped by...
View ArticleNationalism and Anti-Nationalism: A Matter of Perception
By: Glen Paul Hammond The culture of a nation is a multi-layered thing; it is like a many-sided diamond, or a delicate ecosystem with many working parts. Each and every culture has its own particular...
View ArticleReverse Discrimination and Employment
By: Hendrik van der Breggen Let’s think discriminately about discrimination (yes, you read that right). I’ll distinguish two senses of discrimination, and then I’ll raise seven questions about reverse...
View ArticleDemocratic Socialism: An Impossible Dream?
An Article in Two Parts, by Craig Collins Part One: Socialist Mythology vs. Statist Reality The founders of “scientific socialism,” Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, assumed it was quite possible, even...
View ArticleDr. Bower Among the Giants
Journey2Psychology, A Project by: Dr. MIchael Gordon Mike Gordon is travelling across the world to converse with influential Psychologists and discover the stories behind their work. This journey will...
View ArticleDemocratic Socialism: An Impossible Dream? II
An Article in Two Parts, by Craig Collins Read Part One Here Part Two: Energy & Economics Shapes Politics The first part of this article asserted that, contrary to the prevailing mythology on...
View ArticlePlato’s Crito: When should we break the law?
By: Spencer Case from 1000-Word Philosophy Plato’s Crito describes a conversation that takes place in 399 B.C.E. in an Athens prison, where Socrates awaits execution. Not long before, an assembly of...
View ArticleRunning Down a Dream with Dr. Allison Harvey
Journey2Psychology, A Project by: Dr. MIchael Gordon Mike Gordon is travelling across the world to converse with influential Psychologists and discover the stories behind their work. This journey will...
View ArticleStoicism & the Destruction of Man
By: Glen Paul Hammond Recently, the American Psychological Association (APA) took aim at “traditional masculinity” by, amongst other things, criticizing “stoicism” as one of its problematic...
View ArticleSocial Contract Theory
By: David Antonini from 1000-Word Philosophy When you make an agreement of some significance (e.g., to rent an apartment, or join a gym, or divorce), you typically agree to certain terms: you sign a...
View ArticleAn Unobtrusive Conversation with Dr. Joe Forgas
Simply put he found that when people are experiencing sadder, more negative moods they tend to process information more comprehensively.
View ArticleWhy Did Socialism Fail?
...like industrial capitalism, alienation pervaded every aspect of life under industrial “socialism.”
View ArticleEcosocialism vs. the Green New Deal
One could ask, from the perspective of the left, does the Green New Deal go far enough? Does it address the fundamental assumptions of the US economy that led to climate catastrophe?
View ArticleThe Beauty of Being Wrong
I can't put this bluntly enough: almost all of the psychologists I've spoken with seem to relish in being wrong. They work to constantly disprove their previous findings, to be the first to find fault...
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