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MAGA Thinks Like Seven-Year-Old Children
Every parent who has ever caught a child doing something wrong has heard the same defense. “But I didn’t get in trouble for it.”
The child does not a…
14 hours ago
MAGA is a Daycare for Adult Children
In the summer of 2025, psychologist Craig Neumann did something no researcher had done at this scale before. He measured the empathy profiles of over…
1 day, 14 hours ago
Fox News Is Making You Dumber
In 2012, a research team at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind poll set out to answer a straightforward question: how well do Americans who …
2 days, 10 hours ago
Why Losers Loved Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk never graduated from college. He applied to West Point, was rejected, and instead of trying again somewhere else, he built a career tell…
3 days, 14 hours ago
The Psychology of Narcissistic Collapse
In 1975, psychoanalyst Otto Kernberg published Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism, a book that would reshape how the field understood …
4 days, 11 hours ago
The Biology of Fear: Why Your Brain Picks Your Politics
Something doesn’t add up about American politics.
Millions of people vote against their own healthcare. They vote against their own wages. They vote a…
5 days, 14 hours ago
How to Stop Fascism
Most people who recognize what is happening in their country right now share one thing in common. They don’t know what to do about it.
They vote. They…
6 days, 14 hours ago
The Weight of the Person You Never Became
There is a particular kind of anger that has nothing to do with what is happening in front of you. It is not a reaction to a policy, a headline, or a…
1 week ago
Conservative Culture Produces Weak Men
In 2012, researcher Brené Brown at the University of Houston published Daring Greatly, the result of over a decade spent studying shame across thousa…
1 week, 1 day ago
Why Conservative Men Can’t Spell
In 1963, historian Richard Hofstadter sat in his office at Columbia University and wrote a sentence that described MAGA sixty years before MAGA exist…
1 week, 2 days ago