Here’s a compelling article by Daniel Kahneman and Jonathan Renshon. Kahneman is famous for identifying numerous human heuristics and biases in the lab. He received a Nobel prize in economics based on his decades of inspiring work. Renshon is a Harvard doctoral student. In this article, the authors note that many built-in…
Back in September, 2006, I bemoaned the lack of a real plan by any Democratic leaders regarding Iraq. Things have not changed since September. It has not been easy to find any leader stepping up with anything other than a symbolic plan or a wish. That is the context of…
If you couldn't make it to Washington, DC, many local communities sponsored their own anti-war protests today. The one I attended was sponsored by the St. Louis Instead of War Coalition. The sponsors assembled the several hundred participants into groups to be photographed, those photos to be delivered to new Missouri…
Sometimes I have only questions, and few answers. I feel that way about Iraq. I have not heard any really good proposals for what to do now in Iraq. Maybe it is because I start with the belief that we caused this problem by our war-mongering. I find it hard…
Did you see Virginia Sen. Jim Webb's response to the President's State of the Union address last night? Here's the text. The President took us into this war recklessly. He disregarded warnings from the national security adviser during the first Gulf War, the chief of staff of the army, two…