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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Apr 17, 2016
Bill Moyers Interview with Rick Shenkman
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Apr 17, 2016
C-SPAN Interview: Book Discussion on Political Animals
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Apr 8, 2016
Why Are Trump Voters Not Bothered by His Lies?
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Apr 2, 2016
Your Brain on Politics (Video)
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Feb 26, 2016
Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth About Donald Trump's America
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Feb 22, 2016
For Voters, Facts Should Be the Lifeblood of Democracy
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Feb 13, 2016
Our Brain Dislikes Disorder. That Explains a Lot.
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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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