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America is at war with itself. By all accounts we are the most divided we have been since the civil war. Politicians are supposed to compromise. Yet we are electing political activists who are creating a new religion of national politics, who sacralize their political beliefs. When we sacralize our political beliefs any compromise becomes a sin. It's a special type of stupid because our fragile experiment in liberal democracy is hanging in the balance. Political Ideology is a social science detective story. We will examine the origins of political ideology that make it difficult for; Us to ...

The future breaks down into threats and opportunities. Meta-Trends motivate you to plan better so that not only will you survive, you will thrive over the next 15 years. Change is happening so rapidly in society that the need for reliable forecasts is paramount. It turns out that demographics are the single most powerful ingredient in forecasting what the future will look like. Readers will take away tactical strategies to improve their net worth and to find the motivation to do so today. Most importantly, they will know how to protect their wealth and the health of their businesses in the ...

Why does everyone seem to be wrong about everything? In our age of information abundance, we're somehow less informed than ever. The "paper of record" occasionally records things that never happened. Social media algorithms have turned our brains into slot machines that only pay out confirmation bias. We've accidentally created a world where everyone gets to be their own pope, complete with infallible pronouncements about vaccine efficacy based on YouTube videos watched while eating cereal. From the spectacular failures of major news organizations to the psychology of filter bubbles, from ...