Robot Kills a Worker in Germany… Who’s to Blame?
Since the onset of the Industrial Revolution, Western nations have harbored a collective anxiety about…
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Amazing Grace: Obama Hits a Blue Note in Charleston
If Sunday morning at 11 o’clock is Christian America’s most segregated hour, then “Amazing Grace”…
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Our Failure To Understand Ferguson: A Cognitive Explanation
Can cognitive science help us to better blame public institutions?
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#WhoIsBurningBlackChurches: Is It Freedom Summer Again?
Black churches burning. Anonymous threats to black female pastors. All this in the few weeks since the shooting…
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You’re Worse When You’re Hiding The Cocaine: A Moral Psychologist on Character and Blame
This interview is the third installment of It’s Your Fault, a Cubit series about blame…
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The Sacred and the Dead: Ten Writers on the End of an American Adventure
Jerry Garcia said once that he didn’t care much for the Western God—but that didn’t…
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The Benedict Opt-Out: Why Christian Self-Isolation Won’t Work
In a much talked-about Op-Ed in Time last week in the wake of the Supreme Court’s…
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What the Conservative Christian “Fake-Trans Bathroom Creeper” Has To Do With Suburban Anxiety
In the latest addition to It’s Your Fault, The Cubit’s series on blame in contemporary society, RD associate editor…
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Evangelical “Sexual Purity” Is Not About Sex—It’s About Power
A Q&A with author Sara Moslener about “Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence”
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Introducing ‘It’s Your Fault,’ a Series on Blame
Is Dylann Roof solely to blame for the murder of 9 people in the Emanuel AME church…
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