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Preening, Bullying, and Lying in America: Do We Have a Leader Yet?

Note: The image to the right is not real. It is fake. It is not a dead parrot, but it is not a real parrot either. Reading and listening to the mainstream media, it has been suggested that this new president […]

“Natural Symbols”: On the Brutality of Popular Opinion and Why You Think You’re Always Right

Anthropologist Mary Douglas published a book called Natural Symbols 45 years ago. It’s a gateway into thinking about how individuals encode their perceptions of reality through the complex cosmology of cultural symbols they live in — bodily or “natural” symbols in particular. The […]