Uncommon Common Sense

Uncommon Common Sense By Bill Frayer
December 2017	Adios, Amigos!
November 2017	Big Challenges Ahead
October 2017	Do I Have to Like Everybody?
September 2017	Being Wrong
August 2017	The Arts: A Tool against Authoritarianism
July 2017	The Dark Side of Populism
June 2017	In Pursuit of Loneliness
May 2017	How Committed Are We To Free Speech?
April 2017	Postman Was Right: Huxley Had it Right
March 2017	The Persistence of Binary Thinking
February 2017	Fuzzy Facts?
January 2017	What Have We Learned?
December 2016	When We Are Right
November 2016	The Future of Employment
October 2016	An Argument for Pluralism
September 2016	Global Values? Not So Fast...
August 2016	DO Go Gentle...
July 2016	Certainty and Doubt
June 2016	What Happened to Secular Values?
May 2016	Drifting Towards Authoritarianism?
March 2016	Should Happiness Really Be Our Goal?
February 2016	Was Plato Right?
January 2016	The Politics of Fear
December 2015	The Individuation of Poverty
November 2015	Major Change Is Upon Us
October 2015	Is That Immoral or Just Not Such a Good Idea?
September 2015	The Elephants Are in Control
August 2015	Politics of Hate
July 2015	Complexity and Ambiguity
June 2015	Intellectual Humility
May 2015	Are We Headed for a Technological Dystopia?
April 2015	In God We Trust?
March 2015	Je Suis Charlie? Not So Much
February 2015	Girls Are Leaving Boys Behind
January 2015	Gut Check for Progressives
December 2014	Distrust of the Intellectual
November 2014	FDR and Privacy
October 2014	Has the Enlightenment Faded?
September 2014	The Millennials Are Coming!
August 2014	The Paradox of Choice?
July 2014	Ignorance Is Not Bliss
June 2014	Medical Costs: Value over Volume
May 2014	Fair Pay for Fair Work?
April 2014	Empowering Your Inner Introvert
March 2014	Failure Is Not What It Seems
February 2014	Public Assistance with Dignity?
January 2014	Less Austerity, More Airbags
December 2013	The Essential Nature of Doubt
November 2013	What’s Wrong with the United States?
October 2013	Emotional Intelligence
September 2013	Teach Our Children to Think
August 2013	What We Think We Know
July 2013	Living With Risk
May 2013	Is Coercive Paternalism Ever Justified?
April 2013	We Are Stuck In the Past
March 2013	What Are You Waiting For?
February 2013	Do You Doubt?
January 2013	Over-Diagnosis: Treating the Healthy?
December 2012	Thinking like a Simpleton
November 2012	In Defense of Slow
October 2012	Critical Thinking Is Subversive!
September 2012	The Future of Libraries
August 2012	The Gay Rights Evolution
July 2012	The Case for Literature
June 2012	What’s Happened to Conversation?
May 2012	What Does the Left Get Right?
April 2012	What Does the Right Get Right?
March 2012	Collaborative Consumption: Would It Work?
February 2012	Moneyball and Your Life
January 2012	Democracy in Crisis
December 2011	The Invisible Hamish Line
November 2011	Contemplating Our Final Chapter
October 2011	Can We Get Back to Civil, Thoughtful Dialogue?
September 2011	Reconsidering Marx
August 2011	The Difficulty of Prediction
July 2011	Mis-Estimation of Risk
June 2011	What You Know May Not Be Correct!
May 2011	A Simple Life
April 2011	Here’s Your Brain Online
March 2011	Is More Openness Always Better?
February 2011	Words and Violence
January 2011	Do You Strive for Happiness?
December 2010	The Hubris of Modernity
November 2010	Conditional Probability: Not So Simple
October 2010	The Sometimes Slippery Truth
September 2010	Why Do People Believe Weird Things?
August 2010	Ethical Thinking in the Real World
July 2010	The “Heinz Dilemma” and Ethical Development
June 2010	What’s Right? What’s Wrong? (Part 2)
May 2010	What’s Right? What’s Wrong?
April 2010	How to Have a Productive Debate
March 2010	Paradigm Pioneers
February 2010	Can You Look Outside Your Paradigms?
January 2010	We Are What We Assume
December 2009	The Devil Is in What We Take for Granted!
November 2009	Ambiguity and Democracy
October 2009	What You Think You Heard Me Say May Not Be Exactly What I Meant!
September 2009	Slow Down, Calm Down and…Think
August 2009	“When I was a Kid…”
July 2009	When Expert Opinion is Questionable
June 2009	It’s Easy to Identify a False Cause
May 2009	Black or White...or Maybe Gray?
April 2009	So Why Do We Reward Those Who Oversimplify?
March 2009	It’s Really Very Simple…Or Is It?
February 2009	Majority Rules…Or Do They?
January 2009	The Problem of Stereotypes
December 2008	Leapfrogging Past the Evidence
November 2008	When Should We Believe Statistics and Research?
October 2008	Where Is he Evidence?
September 2008	Can You Change Your Mind Easily?
August 2008	Ignorance: How Well Do You Know What You Don’t Know?
July 2008	How Do You Really Know if You Disagree?
June 2008	Socrates Teaches Us How to Question
May 2008	Asking the Right Questions
April 2008	Skepticism: What Should I Believe?
March 2008	Trust Your Gut?
February 2008	How Do You Think You Feel?

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