The simple virtue of paying attention
“Our political debates do not suffer from too much doubt but from too much certainty. The task of thinking is to live with doubt in the service of understanding, rather than living with certainty in...
View Article21st century ‘know nothing’ lunacy
“It would be nice to dismiss the stupid things that Americans believe as harmless, the price of having such a large, messy democracy,” says Timothy Egan in The New York Times. Purveyors of falsehoods...
View ArticleAmericans paying price for ignorance
Times are changing, and Americans’ ignorance about the world around them is becoming far more costly than it once was, contends Andrew Romano in The Daily Beast. Ignorance is different from stupidity,...
View ArticleIgnorant people get to vote, too
Worrying about voter ignorance and prejudice is futile, says David Weigel in Slate. While reason and logic will correct erroneous views, it will not change voter preference, only the justification for...
View ArticleIgnorance of history, and its price
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” George Santayana famously wrote. As Gary Hart points out in his Huffington Post article, “cannot” is a failure of ability. Does this...
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