50 Years of Gender and Intellectual Ability Stereotypes in Films
Films are doing women no favors, unless you think relegating them to traditional roles is a good thing.
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Stabilising the Real Economy Increases Average Output
This column summarizes research indicating that stabilizing the real economy raises the long-run level of output.
Read more...The Necessary Transience of Happiness
Questioning the modern obsession with happiness.
Read more...How the Agricultural Revolution Changed our Social and Economic Evolution
How agriculture produced ultrasociality, a major change in human evolution.
Read more...Employers to Women: Could You Be Any Dumber (Please)?
Being smart is not a plus for career-minded women.
Read more...Resisting the Gig Economy: The Emergence of Cooperative Food Delivery Platforms
Labor-squeezing platform providers: how to fight fire with fire.
Read more...Noam Chomsky on the Populist Groundswell, U.S. Elections, the Future of Humanity, and More
Chomsky discusses a wide range of hot topics.
Read more...Thousands of Students Protest Gun Violence
A first-hand report on some of the student gun protests in California.
Read more...50th Anniversary of Martin Luther King’s Last Speech: Have We Left the Haunted House?
King described the problem of structural racism in his final speech and how the US commitment to Vietnam was hurting blacks disproportionately. What if anything has changed?
Read more...Silicon Valley’s Gilded Cage
Silicon Valley glitters but at least some of its workers want more.
Read more...How to Construct a New Invisible Hand: A Conversation with Peter Barnes
Higher-level selection is the invisible hand.
Read more...Weak States: Causes and Consequences of the Sicilian Mafia
Why it might make sense to pay heed on what the Mafia hath wrought….
Read more...Notes on the West Virginia Teachers Strike of 2018
How this strike began, the current state of play, health care as a demand, solidarity, and the role of the Democrats
Read more...Commentary on Study Finding Gun Injuries Fall 20% During NRA Conventions Curiously Omits Some Possible Explanations
Arguments have already started over the implications of a new study that finds that gun injuries fall sharply when the NRA convention is on.
Read more...Priceless Moments: How Capitalism Eats Our Time
Market economy to you: “All your time are belong to us”
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