Martin Luther King Jr.’s political program contrasted with his reputation as a moderate, as a new biography shows. However, this must be seen in historical context – in his ends, the American civil rights hero was always a universalist.
Smartphones have led to a mental health crisis, says psychologist Jonathan Haidt. Part of the reason that children are vulnerable is a change in parenting.
La devastación en Venezuela es tan completa que el gobierno de Maduro pronto va a perder el control, dice Antonio Canova. El abogado y activista explica como micro escuelas educan a los niños afuera del disfuncional sistema estatal.
Alison Darcy has founded Woebot, a company that offers therapy by a chatbot. She thinks that technology can help people with mental health issues and address problems of psychology as a science.
Jacob Mchangama. Bild: Keystone/Scanpix_DK/Thomas Lekfeldt.
An increasing number of countries are adopting measures to fight «hate speech». But these are counterproductive. Free speech and equality are not mutually exclusive, but mutually reinforcing.
Digitalisation is expanding the advertising industry’s ability to manipulate us. Micro-targeting is shaking the foundations of democracy.
Demonstranten lieferten sich an einer Anti-Trump-Demonstration im November 2016 in Portland, Oregon, ein Gefecht mit der Polizei. Bild: Alex Milan Tracy/SIPA Images USA.
By covering political protests, undercover journalist Andy Ngo became an enemy of Antifa and got beaten up several times. He says that society cannot tolerate political violence.
Artificial intelligence will change so many aspects of society, largely in ways that we cannot conceive of yet. Democracy, and the system of governance that surround it, will be no exception.
It takes no effort to tolerate those who agree with you. Real tolerance should apply to those views you especially dislike. These days universities are a hotbed of bigotry. But Steven Pinker wants to change that.
