In both extremes – loving America too much, or hating her instead – we refuse to call our nation to repentance, and perhaps all the more when repentance is so desperately needed.More
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Current Events, Masculinity, and the Science of Facial Hair Signals
At the risk of being understood here as making a value judgment, I will repeat myself: we ought to encourage men to grow full beards as a symbolic embrace of virtuous masculinity.More
Self-Promotion
There seems a kind of tight-rope to walk in promoting my work vigorously without becoming (or even seeming) conceited. How does one go about walking that fight line, though? More
Edward Bernays and Propaganda
You may have never heard of Edward Bernays, but he had your number. The father of public relations gave us the modern mass marketing campaign as well as making Sigmund Freud – his double uncle – a household name. Maybe, just maybe, the trick to not falling for propaganda, fake news, and deceptive marketing practices…More