BI in Context [Old MOOS Additional References]

We often take the pursuit of social justice as a desirable end in and of itself, without ever really being clear about what, exactly, it means. This article tries to force us to think more critically about the term.

While the United States has, during its reign as a superpower, done lots of truly terrible things, it does not necessarily follow that American decline will make things better. There is a critical need for better ways of deterring aggression and combating evil.

From David Brooks, an extremely perceptive the analysis of the principal frames/paradigms good people are using to make sense of events surrounding the Hamas' attack. To our three frames, he adds a fourth (which he says is even more important), "authoritarian nihilism."

An essay examining ways in which an inability to constructively navigate the many conflicts associated with the transition to a net zero energy economy is threatening to undermine the entire effort.

An assessment of the role that unquestioning "allyship" has played in a hyper-polarizing society by preventing constructive criticism.

A heartbreaking account of how the now common educational practice of bifurcating society into oppressed and oppressor groups has metastasized in ways that have produced a generation with deeply anti-Semitic beliefs -- all of the name of social justice.

A provocative exploration of some of the psychological dynamics that prevent us from constructively responding when things go wrong.

Well-documented reflections on identity politics, the Plessy vs Ferguson Supreme Court decision (which enshrined the "separate but equal" doctrine), and the idea of human equality

More insight into the psychological complexity of human thought and communication. This article focuses on ideographs and how they influence our ability to understand one another.

An interview with Greg Lukianoff of the Foundation For Individual Rights in Education explaining an important new book and why the belief that having "to destroy freedom to save freedom" is a formula for tyranny.