Scott Mann, in Nobody is Coming to Save You looks at ways to manage the mess of high emotions that makes us both polarized and violent.
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If we want to avoid being at the behest of pathological leaders and their dysfunctional politics, we will need a citizen that has more knowledge of psychology: of both his or her own, and that of their leaders.
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The tendency for power to attract pathologically ruthless and narcissistic people is resulting in the creation of "pathocracies" – rule by the pathological.
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Can a 14th century Muslim polymath’s ideas about the rise and fall of societies explain the situation in today’s Middle East, and particularly in Israel?
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When formulating foreign policy, domestic considerations are important, but they are only one piece of the puzzle.
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In his World War Two memoir, Singapore: The Japanese Version, Colonel Masanobu Tsuji provides a different perspective on Japan’s war effort in Southeast Asia, and our conception of the “enemy.”
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America’s departure from the Old World and its sense of can-do pragmatism have a built-in downside: it is less capable than other cultures to read the more intangible tribal identity codes and motivations of other societies.
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In his book War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires, Peter Turchin illustrates the role of group cohesion in the success of nations.
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The recent Pentagon documents leak, which partly demonstrates the degree to which more and more information is subject to classification, is yet another example of a world obsessed with increasingly minute degrees of control.
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Mattias Desmet’s The Psychology of Totalitarianism puts forward a compelling new theory about unconscious group behaviour in the political sphere.
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Can anything be done to mitigate, or resolve, political polarization over the long term? We propose three kinds of actions..
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Extreme partisan positions have become the norm in politics, attractive for their dramatic and over-simplistic aspects.
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