Academia skews sharply leftward and is increasingly illiberal. Many academics have abandoned the fact/value distinction, which had long served as both a source of rigor and a sort of epistemological ...

Two years ago, Pew Research Center found that Republicans and Democrats were more divided along ideological lines than at any point in the previous two decades. But growing ideological distance is not ...

American research universities, long celebrated as bastions of free inquiry and intellectual exploration, are facing an accelerating crisis: the decline of intellectual diversity, particularly among ...

As the public grows more politically polarized, differences between conservatives and liberals extend their long reach even to opinions about which qualities are important to teach children, according ...

What role does ideology play within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)? This is a question analysts of Chinese politics have been discussing and debating for decades. After the death of Mao Zedong in ...

I’ve written several posts about biases and motivated reasoning. Although both can be adaptive for survival and generally offer more upsides than downsides to decision-making, both can also lead to ...

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Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, makes remarks when presiding over a symposium ...