Articles by Robin Koerner
Half of Politics Is the Refusal to Be Imposed Upon
One of the most interesting aspects of political psychology concerns the gap between the reasons for...
03 Dec, 2020
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6 min read
The Liars We Trust – Why We Choose Transparency Over Truth
Many people who favorably view Donald Trump and politicians like him, talk up his “authenticity” or ...
10 Jun, 2019
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7 min read
How Facts Get Chosen and Minds Get Changed
One of my recent articles, “” (Mistake) made the claim that most political arguments that seem to tu...
09 Oct, 2018
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42 min read
The Mistake You Make in Every Political Argument
We’ve all been sufficiently frustrated by the gap between the values someone espouses and the polici...
28 Aug, 2018
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18 min read
The Diagnosis & Treatment of Ideological Possession
, the Canadian professor of psychology who in the last year has become North America’s most popular ...
30 Mar, 2018
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8 min read
Political Purism Isn’t Principled In An Impure World
Margaret Thatcher once said that “politics at its purest is philosophy in action." As someone who ga...
18 Dec, 2017
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50 min read
#MeToo: From a Male Who Has Been Abused and Accused
They say you always remember your first time.The first time I was sexually assaulted, I was sixteen ...
26 Oct, 2017
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10 min read
Political Scientism: Beware the Enlightened Ones
It’s Not What You Believe. It’s How You Believe It George Orwell’s novel has been selling in large ...
17 May, 2017
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23 min read
From Dawn till Dusk, Protesters Gather in Front of IRS Building on Tax Day
Complying with the tax code costs the United States . That’s the entire GDP of Mexico, wasted becaus...
18 Apr, 2017
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2 min read