Every once in a while, a natural event comes along that challenges an entire society. Not necessarily a war, which may be influenced by environmental factors yet still ultimately relies on human choice. There’s a reason natural disasters play have played an out-sized role in the myths of ancient peoples…

Why aren’t we arguing about the right things? In a country where our founding myths valorize debate, protest, and compromise, we seem to ironically find ourselves paralyzed by the way we argue- on every level of society. At the federal level we have seen the most inactive, intransigent legislature in…

We human beings like our stories. Faced with a series of facts, or records of events, our first instinct is to quickly fashion a narrative from them in our own minds. Since we do this from a young age, the longer we live the more we bend and distort these…