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Uncommon Common Sense
By Bill Frayer
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| December 2017 |
Adios, Amigos! |
| November 2017 |
Big Challenges Ahead |
| October 2017 |
Do I Have to Like Everybody? |
| September 2017 |
Being Wrong |
| August 2017 |
The Arts: A Tool against Authoritarianism
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| July 2017 |
The Dark Side of Populism
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| June 2017 |
In Pursuit of Loneliness |
| May 2017 |
How Committed Are We To Free Speech? |
| April 2017 |
Postman Was Right: Huxley Had it Right |
| March 2017 |
The Persistence of Binary Thinking |
| February 2017 |
Fuzzy Facts? |
| January 2017 |
What Have We Learned? |
| December 2016 |
When We Are Right |
| November 2016 |
The Future of Employment |
| October 2016 |
An Argument for Pluralism |
| September 2016 |
Global Values? Not So Fast… |
| August 2016 |
DO Go Gentle… |
| July 2016 |
Certainty and Doubt |
| June 2016 |
What Happened to Secular Values? |
| May 2016 |
Drifting Towards Authoritarianism? |
| March 2016 |
Should Happiness Really Be Our Goal? |
| February 2016 |
Was Plato Right? |
| January 2016 |
The Politics of Fear |
| December 2015 |
The Individuation of Poverty |
| November 2015 |
Major Change Is Upon Us |
| October 2015 |
Is That Immoral or Just Not Such a Good Idea? |
| September 2015 |
The Elephants Are in Control |
| August 2015 |
Politics of Hate |
| July 2015 |
Complexity and Ambiguity |
| June 2015 |
Intellectual Humility |
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May 2015
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Are We Headed for a Technological Dystopia? |
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April 2015
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In God We Trust? |
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March 2015
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Je Suis Charlie? Not So Much |
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February 2015
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Girls Are Leaving Boys Behind |
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January 2015
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Gut Check for Progressives |
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December 2014
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Distrust of the Intellectual |
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November 2014
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FDR and Privacy |
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October 2014
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Has the Enlightenment Faded? |
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September 2014
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The Millennials Are Coming! |
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August 2014
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The Paradox of Choice? |
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July 2014
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Ignorance Is Not Bliss |
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June 2014
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Medical Costs: Value over Volume |
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May 2014
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Fair Pay for Fair Work? |
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April 2014
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Empowering Your Inner Introvert |
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March 2014
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Failure Is Not What It Seems |
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February 2014
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Public Assistance with Dignity? |
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January 2014
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Less Austerity, More Airbags |
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December 2013
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The Essential Nature of Doubt |
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November 2013
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What’s Wrong with the United States? |
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October 2013
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Emotional Intelligence |
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September 2013
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Teach Our Children to Think |
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August 2013
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What We Think We Know |
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July 2013
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Living With Risk |
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May 2013
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Is Coercive Paternalism Ever Justified? |
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April 2013
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We Are Stuck In the Past |
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March 2013
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What Are You Waiting For? |
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February 2013
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Do You Doubt? |
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January 2013
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Over-Diagnosis: Treating the Healthy? |
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December 2012
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Thinking like a Simpleton |
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November 2012
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In Defense of Slow |
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October 2012
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Critical Thinking Is Subversive! |
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September 2012
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The Future of Libraries |
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August 2012
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The Gay Rights Evolution |
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July 2012
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The Case for Literature |
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June 2012
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What’s Happened to Conversation? |
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May 2012
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What Does the Left Get Right?
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April 2012
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What Does the Right Get Right?
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March 2012
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Collaborative Consumption: Would It Work?
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February 2012
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Moneyball and Your Life
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January 2012
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Democracy in Crisis
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December 2011
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The Invisible Hamish Line
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November 2011
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Contemplating Our Final Chapter
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October 2011
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Can We Get Back to Civil, Thoughtful Dialogue?
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September 2011
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Reconsidering Marx
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August 2011
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The Difficulty of Prediction
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July 2011
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Mis-Estimation of Risk
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June 2011
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What You Know May Not Be Correct!
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May 2011
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A Simple Life
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April 2011
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Here’s Your Brain Online
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March 2011
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Is More Openness Always Better?
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February 2011
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Words and Violence
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January 2011
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Do You Strive for Happiness?
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December 2010
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The Hubris of Modernity
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November 2010
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Conditional Probability: Not So Simple
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October 2010
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The Sometimes Slippery Truth
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September 2010
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Why Do People Believe Weird Things?
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August 2010
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Ethical Thinking in the Real World
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July 2010
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The “Heinz Dilemma” and Ethical Development
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June 2010
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What’s Right? What’s Wrong? (Part 2)
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May 2010
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What’s Right? What’s Wrong?
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April 2010
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How to Have a Productive Debate
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March 2010
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Paradigm Pioneers
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February 2010
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Can You Look Outside Your Paradigms?
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January 2010
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We Are What We Assume
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December 2009
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The Devil Is in What We Take for Granted!
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November 2009
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Ambiguity and Democracy
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October 2009
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What You Think You Heard Me Say May Not Be Exactly What I Meant!
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September 2009
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Slow Down, Calm Down and…Think
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August 2009
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“When I was a Kid…”
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July 2009
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When Expert Opinion is Questionable
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June 2009
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It’s Easy to Identify a False Cause
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May 2009
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Black or White…or Maybe Gray?
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April 2009
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So Why Do We Reward Those Who Oversimplify?
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March 2009
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It’s Really Very Simple…Or Is It?
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February 2009
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Majority Rules…Or Do They?
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January 2009
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The Problem of Stereotypes
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December 2008
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Leapfrogging Past the Evidence
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November 2008
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When Should We Believe Statistics and Research?
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October 2008
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Where Is he Evidence?
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September 2008
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Can You Change Your Mind Easily?
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August 2008
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Ignorance: How Well Do You Know What You Don’t Know?
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July 2008
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How Do You Really Know if You Disagree?
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June 2008
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Socrates Teaches Us How to Question
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May 2008
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Asking the Right Questions
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April 2008
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Skepticism: What Should I Believe?
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March 2008
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Trust Your Gut?
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February 2008
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How Do You Think You Feel?
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