Humans are tribal thinkers. Our minds aren't wired to get to the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. That's not to say...

On the one year anniversary of the Capitol riots in Washington, DC, there are lots of armchair analysts offering explanations for how...

News organizations are in the business of making money. And making money requires having an audience. That means everyone in the news...

Last fall, I noted that Facebook took the unprecedented step of censoring certain sorts of content on their site. Posts making false...

Evidence for empirical claims comes in two sorts: data about a particular case and data for a general pattern. For example, suppose I...

Nearly everyone concedes that many corporate news organizations are biased towards the political left. It’s beyond argument that places...

For the last two weeks, Americans have been wrestling with the implications of the mob attack on the Capitol that left several dead. ...

[note: this is an expanded version of an article that originally appeared in the Durango Herald on 12/21/20] We face a fake news epidemic...

It's going on week three after the 2020 election, and still the incumbent president has not conceded the race. The putative reason for...

Last week, Facebook announced that it would be banning any content that denies or distorts the Holocaust from its platform. Doing so...

A surprising amount of space on social media and the daily news cycle concerns offense. Many of us are quick to point out when we are...