Often have we put forth the premise that human beings are biologically predisposed to live in community – that we are social beings,...

I’m originally from Kentucky, though these days I live just across the river in Indiana, and I am still sufficiently bound to the...

Early in my cognitive pyschology studies, I came across George Lakoff. The first book I read by the Berkley language expert was Metaphors...

When I was younger, I loved a comic book called The Legion of Super-Heroes. These weren’t just any super-heroes; they were a group of...

Many of Robert Heinlein’s later books are, to our chagrin, little more than monotone sociopolitical tracts spewing his personal ideology...

As I write this, it is the day after Apple TV’s new adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation epic – stories of the far future, when...

What will become of public education in a world where human beings no longer work for a living? The educational system we have in place...

What other features of our brains determine our social and political views and behaviors? As it turns out, one of the most important is...

British psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist has summarized for us the differences between the hemispheres of the brain, putting the lie to...

As a general rule, adults know how to act. While it's certainly true that nobody's perfect, it's safe to say that the vast majority of us...

There are few among us who don’t have children in our lives. Maybe we are parents ourselves; maybe we have nieces and nephews. Maybe we...

Myth: Human morality is a product of reason, a consequence of civilization. “Morality dictates that we help.” ~EMH, “Warhead”, Star Trek:...