Gullibility and the Triumph of the Con-Artists Glenn McLaren Government, Politics & Economics Dr. Glenn McLaren Gullibility is a failure of social intelligence in which a person is easily tricked or manipulated into an ill-advised course of action. It is closely related to credulity, which...
Is the Era of In-Class Education Coming to an End? Cristian Gallegos Education, Politics & Economics It's the 21st century and life as we currently know it is drastically different when compared to the last few decades. Cell phones have been introduced as a necessity in everyday life, the global population is...
Racism and the Scourge of Insecurity Glenn McLaren Arts & Culture, Government, History, Politics & Economics Dr Glenn McLaren Whenever I think of racism I think of insecurity. We all battle with our insecurities. For some of us they are debilitating and prevent us from realizing our potential. For...
The Dangers of Ruling via Referendums: The Case of Mexico Juve J. Cortés Government, Politics, Politics & Economics The new president of Mexico—Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)—assumed the executive branch of a country plagued with social issues: high homicide rates, widespread corruption, and dismally low approval...
Knowing Your Boundaries: A Key to Understanding Our Global Crises Glenn McLaren Government, Philosophy, Politics & Economics, Society & Culture, Sociology Is there one thing that is common to all of our major global crises; crises as diverse as sexual harassment and assault, mass immigration and globalization, technologies advancing beyond our control and global...
How to Depoliticize the U.S. Supreme Court Bruce K. Adler Government, Politics & Economics Without question, base politics has at times dogged the Supreme Court. What is probably the most egregious instance occurred during the Court’s early years in – what may come as a surprise – one of the...
Jordan Peterson, Destroyed Glenn McLaren Education, Philosophy, Politics & Economics, Uncategorized Early in 2018 I was searching YouTube for Stephen Colbert’s latest monologue on the Trump administration and I discovered a lecture on problems with postmodernism and neo-Marxism in universities. Having...
