cognitive dissonance

What the TV show “Castle” teaches us about America, and ourselves

Summary:  Let’s start our series about the TV show “Castle”, mining it for insights about ourselves (America), with an easy parallel. Fans of “Castle” tend to see the show as fan fiction, which requires amnesia about its actual history. Much as Americans have amnesia about much of our history. That’s fun for fans and 4th …

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The oddity of reports about the Iraq War

O’Hanlon’s latest articles raise an important question:  why we are re-hashing the same arguments after five years of war?  It is not a question of who is correct, but why we cannot grapple with key aspects of the war, as proved by the lack of meaningful discussion about the Iraq War in our Presidential campaign.  This …

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