Human Behaviour
Moral Licensing: Doing Good Makes Us Feel Free to Do Bad
Suppose you donate to a charity in the morning. In the afternoon, you face a decision that involves some ethical dimension — helping a colleague, being h…
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Human Behaviour
Human Behaviour
The Milgram Experiment: How Ordinary People Do Terrible Things
In 1961, Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram ran a series of experiments that changed how we understand human nature. His question was simple and urgent: how…
Rise of America
Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of American Global Ambition
Theodore Roosevelt became president in September 1901 at forty-two years old, following the assassination of William McKinley. He was the youngest person t…
Philosophy
Kant's Compass: Duty, Morality, and the Good Will
In a world that often judges morality by outcomes, Immanuel Kant argued that the only thing truly good without qualification is a good will. It’s not abo…
Phase 1
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011): The Heart of the MCU
Captain America: The First Avenger is a period superhero film that feels like a classic war movie. Director Joe Johnston (The Rocketeer) perfectly captures…
Human Psychology
The Halo Effect: How One Trait Colours Everything Else We See
Edward Thorndike named the halo effect in 1920 based on his research with military officers. He noticed that officers' ratings of their soldiers were highl…
Environment & Politics
Climate Geopolitics: Why India is the World’s Deal Breaker
At every global climate summit, all eyes are on India. Why? Because we are the third-largest emitter, and we are a developing country that refuses to accep…
Human Behaviour
The Bystander Effect: Why We Watch and Do Nothing
In 1964, a woman named Kitty Genovese was attacked outside her apartment in New York City. Newspaper reports at the time claimed that 38 witnesses watched…
Human Psychology
The Fundamental Attribution Error: We Judge Others Harshly and Ourselves Gently
Someone cuts you off in traffic and you immediately form a judgment about what kind of person they are. Then, a few minutes later, you cut someone else off…
Human Stupidity
Groupthink: When Collective Intelligence Becomes Collective Stupidity
In 1961, a group of some of the most intelligent, educated, and experienced people in the United States government met repeatedly to plan the Bay of Pigs i…
Energy Politics
Energy Security: Why India is Hugging Russia and Irking the US
Energy is the currency of geopolitics. When Russia invaded Ukraine, the West expected India to jump on the sanctions bandwagon. Instead, we did the opposit…
Rise of America
The Civil War: The Crisis That Defined What America Would Be
By 1860, the United States had been arguing about slavery for most of its existence. The founders had known it was a contradiction and had mostly chosen to…
Rise of America
The Roaring Twenties: American Consumer Culture Is Born
The nineteen twenties in America were years of dizzying transformation in the texture of everyday life. The automobile went from novelty to necessity. Radi…
Ethics
The Ethics of Letting AI Make Decisions for Us
I was in a webinar last week where a developer said he lets his AI agent decide who gets hired for entry-level positions based on resume screening. It made…