A Trick of the Mind
Looking for patterns in life and then infusing them with meaning, from alien intervention to federal conspiracy.
Liberalism
Death to the Living Constitution
Can "progressive originalism" become the Next Big Thing on the legal left?
Climate Change and Confirmation Bias
A new study suggests that your values, not science, determine your views about climate change.
Give Peace a Chance
Why does the media keep downplaying the violence at left-wing protests?
What Would Ayn Rand Do?
Religious conservatives have plenty to learn from the Objectivist author.
Ventriloquists for the Powerless
Translating the revolutionary consciousness of voiceless animals is no more silly than doing the same for human beings.
A Whole Foods Fight in Boston
Grad students and hipsters protest the organic market, but many Latino residents are happy about the new shopping option and the jobs.
Whose Body Is It?
Abortion-rights advocates favor a highly selective form of self-ownership.
The Business of the Court
Liberals say the Supreme Court has a pro-corporate bias. Are they right?
What's the Matter with Provincetown?
The Democrats' two years of control delivered zero social liberalism.
The Science of Libertarian Morality
A new social psychology study explores the moral formation of the libertarian personality.
The Deferential Constitutionalist
Liberals want a "Scalia of the left" on the Supreme Court. Is Justice Breyer their man?
