A favorite game of Beatles fans has always been to speculate about what would have happened had the band gotten back together. A more...

So I’m walking into a Baptist church in the Midwest for a wedding, and I hold the door for the maid of honor. As I step inside, I’m hit...

Restored: Diversity, in mind and form, restores the path to evolutionary success... Infinite Diversity, in Infinite Combinations - IDIC....

Distortion: It is natural and good to congregate with the like-minded. Call it cognitive clustering. Once human beings started settling...

Distortion: The advent of agriculture, animal domestication and permanent settlement made us civilized. That impulse – the systematic...

Myth: Human morality is a product of reason, a consequence of civilization. Through the lens of 20th century sociology, human beings are...

Homo sapiens is by far the most social species in existence, and outlived its sibling species through unprecedented cooperation – by...

Myth: It was civilization that imbued humankind with common purpose. Nothing unites a society like common purpose. All  too often, that...

Myth: Females were fought over and treated as prizes – as property - by males. As far back as written human history goes, women have been...

Myth: Warfare is a natural activity, as old as humanity… If the martial impulse is inherent in human nature, then the prospects for a...

Myth: Early humans were “killer apes,” savage and violent… Most of us have 2001: A Space Odyssey to thank for it, but wherever we may...

White House Respect for Science and Reality The White House staff’s respect for C.J. is, of course, well-earned. Press Secretary is one...

White House Social Media Disasters The perils of social media are known to us all at this point, regardless of our station or role in the...

“A half century from now, our grandchildren are likely to look back at the era of mass unemployment in the market with the same sense of...

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...

“ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE”, distinct for its inclusion in the world’s first real-time international telecast (Our World), its all-star...

"I Am the Walrus" Brian Epstein, who had managed the Beatles almost from the beginning and been the architect of most of the critical...

A cup of coffee clatters on the formica in front of me and I come to life again. She is as old as her make-up says she is and her...

I’m not wild about the fiction of Dan (Da Vinci Code) Brown, but I usually read it anyway: what Brown lacks in style, he makes up for in...

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