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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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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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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Shielding children from mild risk-taking erodes their resilience into adulthood and contributes to polarization through intolerance to discomfort and the demand for further safetyism.
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Healthier Middle Eastern societies can result when the dynamic between belonging and being an individual is viewed comprehensively—not a victory of one over another.
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When emotionally aroused, the human mind focuses so intensely on the object in question that all dissenting information is devalued and excluded.
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Canada’s obsession with comfort and safety has led to a society that is buffered—geographically and culturally—from challenge. But is this sustainable?
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If there was ever a time for Turkey to serve as a global intermediary among nations, rather than a political loner defiantly grasping for power, it is today.
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The more complex the functions which the state assumes, the more subordinate the bureaucrats on whom the citizen’s fortune depends.
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In an excellent article in the New York Times, Christy Wampole, Associate Professor at Princeton University, explains how abstractions in politics can have deadly consequences.
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The late American anthropologist, Edward T. Hall wrote that many human differences are often accounted for by unconscious cultural habits that are “invisible” to its holders.
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