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Back to SearchThe War Paradox: How Warfare Breeds Cooperation, and Cooperation Reduces Warfare
Today on MindMatters we discuss complexity scientist Peter Turchin's 2015 book, Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooper…
4 years ago
Critical Race Theory's Race To The Bottom
Critical Race Theory did not come ready-made out of a box. What we see and know today as CRT has, as its basis, several schools of pseudo-philosophic…
4 years, 1 month ago
Is Critical Race Theory Race Marxism?
Today on MindMatters we delve into the first chapters of James Lindsay's new book Race Marxism: The Truth about Critical Race Theory and Praxis. Cont…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Matter with Things: Truth, Science, and Life
Today on MindMatters we discuss three chapters from Iain McGilchrist's magnum opus, The Matter with Things. What is truth? What is science's role in …
4 years, 2 months ago
Political Psychopathy Goes Mainstream, Linked to Crimes Against Humanity
Not since Nuremberg have political leaders and functionaries accused or guilty of crimes against humanity been accessible to psychologists for close …
4 years, 2 months ago
Why Is Russia Like That? 400 Year of Russian Security Culture, with Gordon M. Hahn
Today on MindMatters we are joined by Gordon M. Hahn, Russia analyst and author of essential books on Russia's revolution from above in the 90s, Russ…
4 years, 3 months ago
"They Enjoy the Infliction of Pain": Psychopaths, Wokeness, Ponerology - with Michael Rectenwald
Many see through the destructive thoughts, emotions and policies of Leftist political dogma - thanks in large part to the actions and behaviors of th…
4 years, 3 months ago
Beyond the Schizo-Autistic Worldview: Introducing the Matter with Things
Our understanding of each other, ourselves, the world, science and philosophy is in a sorry state. Ratiocentric, transactional, materialistic, and na…
4 years, 3 months ago
Princely Politics: Why Machiavelli Still Matters Today
Was Machiavelli an evil mastermind? A Svengali manipulator and corrupter of princes, worthy of the contemporary descriptor "Machiavellian"? Was he, r…
4 years, 3 months ago
The New Unclean: How Our Psychology Was Hijacked to Make Us See Each Other as the Enemy
Are the vaccine hesitant really deserving of being called irresponsible conspiracy-minded nationalists who are ignorant of science - or other denigra…
4 years, 4 months ago