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Guest columnist Jonathan Kahane: An answer to everything Published: 2/3/2021 12:13:23 PM There are so many things that I just don’t understand — and never will. That conclusion flies in the face of my spending 23 years of my life in academe as a student and an additional 40 years teaching and conducting research in psychology at a local college. If it had all been left up to me, I would probably still be wandering around the Bronx schoolyards looking for a stickball game. Thanks Mom and Da...

Published: 1/24/2021 12:01:16 AM In a recent post about far-right movements, NBC dark-web analyst Ben Collins writes that “QAnon adherents . . . believe Trump is secretly saving the world from a cabal of child-eating Satanists, have identified Inauguration Day as a last stand, and falsely think he will force a 10-day, countrywide blackout that ends in the mass execution of his political enemies and a second Trump term.” The question is what happens when this prophecy is disconfirmed? Back ...

This article originally appeared on the MIT Press Reader. To say that facts are less important than feelings in shaping our beliefs about empirical matters seems new, at least in American politics. In the past we have faced serious challenges — even to the notion of truth itself — but never before have such challenges been so openly embraced as a strategy for the political subordination of reality, which is how I define "post-truth." Here, "post" is meant to indicate not so much the idea...

This stops being an exercise in information warfare and starts being something a lot more real. >> just to pick up on chriss point, what the president says -- when the president says something, it is the policy. i dont want to hear that the policy of people like t-- he ses the policy. if he says we dont believe these things are happening, that is the official position of the united states government. that needs to be said over and over again. >> if you were to only listen to the presidents state...

$156 billion worth of chinese goods due to take effect today. last month the chinese, excuse me an american cia officer was sentenced to 19 years in prison for spying for china. lee was one of several sentenced for spying. we asked the pentagon for comment but have not heard back yet. ed: thank you, lucas for being all over the story. we have peter navarro, appreciate you coming in. >> good afternoon, ed. ed: i know the spy game is not your biz. ed: i have to ask you about it, because youre here...

Ive said is it before because democrats have tried this before. during the mueller hearing, democrats said repeatedly emphatically, unequivocally, that donald trump must be impeached for obstruction of justice. that was until they heard the special counsel admit to me that his obstruction of justice analysis was done under a one of a kind, never before used by the department of justice legal standard that inverted a presumption of innocence to a presumption of guilt. now the democrats take it on...

>> isnt there a question of when you want to peak? >> thats true. maybe he is peaking too early now. were still in november. having said that, i do think there is a little cognitive dissonance with some of our candidates because theres so many, the policies are going to be hard to decipher from candidate to candidate. how much does this cost? so i think youre going to see a lot of fluctuation. except for biden. so you have a lot of educated, white liberals who are sort of making decisions betwee...

Having said that, i do think there is a little cognitive dissonance with some evof our candidates because theres so many, the policies are going to be hard to decipher from candidate to candidate. how much does this cost? so i think youre going to see a lot of trufluctuation. except for biden. so you have a lot of educated, white liberals who are sort of making decisions between bernie, warren, and mayor pete. but you have biden support, older, and a lot of older, african-americans who say, no, ...

Some liberal democrat. im not. they used to think i was a conservative republican. im not. but i dont think the republicans are serving themselves well right now with their defenses or lack thereof of a credible one. i got to move on, though. >> theyre in such a box. >> they are in a box. >> because theyre trying to -- they say the president has no defense. everyone in that room who is a republican is doing nothing but defend the president. not one of them asked any questions to elicit any kind ...

Some liberal democrat. im not. or im some -- they used to think i was a conservative republican. im not. but i dont think the republicans are serving themselves well right now with their defenses or lack thereof of a credible one. i got to move on, though. >> theyre in such a box. >> they are in a box. >> because theyre trying to -- they say the president has no defense. everyone in that room who is a republican is doing nothing but defend the president. not one of them asked any questions to el...