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The second culprit for blunders in affective forecasting is “presentism,” or when people allow current conditions to dictate perceptions of the past and the future. A person who is currently hungry overestimates how hungry he will be in the future, and therefore overbuys at...
Such malevolence and contempt is not only unwarranted, it is utterly baseless. The nature of intellectual discovery demands the concentration of society’s brightest minds and best resources. Synergistic cooperation, not fragmentation and isolation, are generative of academic discovery. To assail the Ivies for “stealing?...
'So?' DICK CHENEY, U.S. Vice President, after being told that two-thirds of Americans do not support the war in Iraq. He argued that public opinion polls should not dictate the war's conduct
DICK CHENEY, when told that two-thirds of Americans do not support the war in Iraq. He went on to argue that polling should not dictate the war's conduct
Such a compromise might seem reasonable for all sides. But really only a skeptic, or one not fully committed to the truth of his convictions, could deem such an arrangement a positive good. Christians, used to the dominant secularism of this age, have conceded it, if not as a principle...