Bill Moyers has some sharp comments for those who believe that the Free Market offers free, effortless and unrivaled wisdom: [W]hen you worship market forces as if they were the gods of Olympus, then the gods can do no wrong - until, of course, they prove to be human. Then…
Here's a standard account of autism, from Wikipedia: Autism is a brain development disorder that first gives signs during infancy or childhood and generally follows a steady course without remission or relapse. Impairments result from maturation-related changes in various systems of the brain. Autism is one of the five pervasive…
Glenn Greenwald hits the nail on the head again: Of all the constitutionally threatening and extremist powers the Bush administration has asserted over the last seven years, the most radical -- and the most dangerous -- has been its claim that the President has the power to arrest U.S. citizens…
I've written before about the work of Jonathan Haidt (pronounced “height”). He is a psychologist who has taken an experimental approach to investigating morality. I was highly impressed by Haidt's analysis of conservative versus liberal versus of morality, for instance. In his previous work, Haidt determined that disgust played a…
Writing on a NYT blog, Olivia Judson argues that we should abolish "Darwinism." Here's what she means: I’d like to abolish the insidious terms Darwinism, Darwinist and Darwinian. They suggest a false narrowness to the field of modern evolutionary biology, as though it was the brainchild of a single person…