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Michael Legaspi is concerned that too much of American higher education consists of political advocacy. He's right to be, and I agree with him. In fact, I'd go further. I'd say that too much ...

Sometimes, you need to fight fire with fire. Taking the high road (sharing information; describing costs, benefits and risks -- all that cognitive stuff) is necessary, but it's not sufficient in ...

When I hollered "The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!", I thought I was joking. Honest. Now, according to information published in The Independent (UK), maybe the Russians ...

It's getting to the end of the semester, which means that a lot of student projects are getting turned in (or soon will be). As the result of a fair amount of moral (at least, I think it was moral) ...

The Sierra Club needs our help. Especially those of use with dirt under our fingernails, stuck to our hair, ground into our skins. See, Sierra's Student Coalition is pushing a "2 Dirty 4 ...

So now we hear that President Obama is going to stop by the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen, while he's in the neighborhood. I'm not sure how much encouragement to take from this fact. After ...

I've been troubled for some time by all the media focus on how the economy ostensibly is recovering. Consumer activity, real estate prices, durable goods. Everything but jobs and, as we all know, ...

I was listening to NPR today, and heard an interview with Drew Westen (professor of psychology at Emory and author of The Political Brain). The chat, predictably, centered on how arguments made by ...

Let me start by saying that I'm tremendously conflicted on this subject. Probably the first lessons I taught my children when they were old enough to watch TV were that (1) commercials lie, and (2) ...

The arguments that sustainability advocates have been making, which aren't working well enough, have been largely fact-based. (That's what often happens when you start out with empirical data.) But ...