This is what it's come to: Rahm Emanuel, who works in the White House, called a planned attack ad by Democrats on Democrats "f--king retarded," and it's the second word people are offended by? Is anyone else confused by this? It's cool for a guy working in the White House to use the F-word, but the R-word is off limits? We've passed through the looking glass, folks. Read More

Thomas Malthus, the world's first professional economist, will always be with us. Read More

The great mythologist Joseph Campbell used to explain that an essential first step toward wisdom involved detribalization. Whether we know it or not, we're all members of certain tribes, which are determined by sets of shared assumptions. To begin the process of really seeing what's going on around us, we need to recognize and question these assumptions built into our perspective. Read More

Nobody likes a hypocrite. But author Robert Wright argues in a recent piece that when it comes to marital infidelity, even more hypocrisy may be precisely what's needed. Read More