Stone Age Brain
Rick Shenkman is the author of "Political Animals: How Our Stone Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics" (Basic Books, 2016). You can sign up for Rick's blog! Just submit your email address below and you'll receive an email every time he blogs. It's free. Your email will never be sold or transferred.
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Jan 22, 2016
Trump’s Genius
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Jan 10, 2016
Ted Cruz’s Stone-Age Brain and Yours
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Jan 8, 2016
What's the Voters' Problem? That's a Lot Harder to Determine than You Might Suspect.
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Jan 7, 2016
We’re suffering from Stone-Age thinking in 2016: Interview
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Dec 17, 2015
Why Millions of Voters Are Pre-Wired to Support Donald Trump
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May 30, 2015
New Study: The world's a lot more violent than reported
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May 22, 2015
Why Americans Support the Iran Deal for the Wrong Reason
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Apr 3, 2015
This is why colleges need to hire historians
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Apr 2, 2015
Is Western society responsible for violence and environmental degradation?
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Apr 1, 2015
Are we born with a universal grammar?
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Mar 25, 2015
Do our genes determine how we behave? Nah.
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Mar 10, 2015
Hillary's Emails: A Prediction
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Nov 11, 2014
This study claims how we worship may be dependent on the environment
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Nov 9, 2014
It Happened a Long Time Ago -- A Really Long Time Ago
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Oct 29, 2014
How bad can an El Niño be? This bad.
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Jun 2, 2014
What You're Missing If You're Not Watching Cosmos
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May 28, 2014
What Can a Classics Professor Teach Us About Climate Change?
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Jun 2, 2009
Cheney finally admits no connection between Saddam and 9-11
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News
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- Newly Obtained FBI Files Shed New Light on the Murder of Fred Hampton
- Reading A Letter That's Been Sealed For More Than 300 Years — Without Opening It
- Shelia Washington Dies at 61; Helped Exonerate Scottsboro Boys
- The Lie at the Heart of the Western
- 'More Dangerous And More Widespread': Conspiracy Theories Spread Faster Than Ever
- Online Roundtable: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s ‘Race for Profit’
- Should Black Northerners Move Back to the South?
- The Deep South Has a Rich History of Resistance, as Amazon Is Learning
- America’s Political Roots Are in Eutaw, Alabama