Commentary Many readers are no doubt familiar with nudge theory, a concept built around achieving compliance without using coercion. Ostensibly, nudges are designed to help people make better decisions. However, when governments resort to nudging, we must ask, who benefits? Is this nudge actually a push? And in what direction, exactly, are we being pushed?…
How Elites Use ‘Nudge Units’ to Manipulate the Masses
The Question Fools Don’t Ask
Commentary What would you think of a person who never asked the price of anything he or she bought? You would assume the person was inordinately wealthy. But if the person wasn’t, you would dismiss him as a fool, and you would certainly never ask this person for advice about how to spend your money….
FreedomFest: Conversation With Sam Sorbo
At FreedomFest in Las Vegas, I sat down with Sam Sorbo, who as an education freedom advocate, was cautiously excited to speak with highly educated patriots who desire freedom for our nation. We discussed school system training to conformity and obedience, critical race theory, and her opinion on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on overturning Roe…
The Subordinate Citizen
Commentary I recently led a group of about 100 citizens to tour Israel for nearly two weeks. Before returning to the United States, all participants had to indicate their vaccination status and take a COVID-19 test for reentry. Anxieties swept the group as Israeli testers swabbed them. Anyone testing positive would have to delay his…
The Psychology of Mimetic Contagion
Commentary My friend and colleague Dr. Mary Talley Bowden recently posed this important question, which has puzzled many people during the pandemic: Such a great question. A friend of mine from the age of 5 won’t have anything to do with me now because of my Covid views. I know we’ve all experienced this. @akheriaty…
When Children Disobey: Winking at Disobedience, Winding Toward Destruction
A little girl sporting a blue tutu came into view the other day as I walked by a school parking lot. But it wasn’t the tutu that caught my attention—it was her mother’s various commands and entreaties that she was happily ignoring. “It’s time to go, honey!” No movement. “We need to go home now,”…
What Can the Stanford Prison Experiment Tell Us About Life in the Pandemic Era?
Commentary Late in the summer of 1971, a young man was taken from his home in Palo Alto, California. Then another. And another. Nine in all, they were each spirited away. Eventually brought to a place with no windows and no clocks, they were stripped and they were chained. They were costumed in dress-like gowns….
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