Politics Extremist Violence Has Its Roots in Morality, Not Ideology The ideology behind extremist violence looks remarkably like the “moral sentiments” of empathy, indignation, and…Clark McCauleyJanuary 30, 2020
Politics Conservative Extremists Are Afraid of Threats That Don’t Exist Crucially, the pattern of heightened reactivity and credulity toward potential threats characteristic of the conservative…Colin Holbrook, Jennifer Hahn-HolbrookJanuary 21, 2020
Politics What is Radicalization? Internet social media has proven to be a powerful vehicle for mass radicalization.Sophia MoskalenkoJanuary 8, 2020
Politics Why Extremism Isn’t the Real Issue On a global scale, mismatches between ethnic identity and nation-states have caused more death and…Mark SedgwickDecember 31, 2019
Politics Extremism as Defense The attempt to solve a problem by destroying its source remains an eternal aspect of…Rose McDermottDecember 18, 2019
BiologyPolitics The Virtue of Extremism is its Enhancement of the Ordinary To better understand extremism, we need to look not only at the evils perpetrated but…David BarashDecember 11, 2019
Politics Extremism in Historical and Evolutionary Perspective A new and important change is occurring in the history of political violence which suggests…Anthony Lopez, Hammad SheikhDecember 4, 2019
HistoryPolitics Morality Regulates Our Social Physiology Darwin knew humans can’t survive or thrive individually. Indeed the relation between people and groups…PubliusAugust 1, 2019
BiologyMoralityPolitics The Human Social Organism and a Parliament of Genes Ten thousand years of cultural evolution has impressively expanded the scale of human cooperation to…PubliusJuly 25, 2019
Politics More Perfect UNIONS Must Regulate Their Parts Every animal society experiences the same tension between the need to cooperate to achieve collective…PubliusJuly 18, 2019
