What is the Thucydides trap?

It’s the theory that, when a rising power threatens to displace an established power, the result is often war. It is named ...
Psychology Today

Social Psychology’s Most Underappreciated Theory

Bibb Latané’s theory of social impact, first introduced in 1981, shines a bright light on how we are influenced by other ...
Greek Reporter

The Milesian School: Ancient Greece’s Pioneers of Philosophy

The Milesian School was based in Miletus and produced three great thinkers who were the pioneers of philosophy in ancient Greece. Credit: New York University/nyu.edu/Public Domain The Milesian School ...
Mises InstituteOpinion

The Hypocrisy of the West’s Abandonment of Universal Values

The current strain of illiberalism running through western thought conflicts with the themes of individual liberty and ...

The conspiracy theorists who feel vindicated by the Epstein files

Sociologist Art Jipson talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about how clamouring for the release of the Epstein files ...

String theory is uniquely derived from basic assumptions about the universe, physicists show

If you could take an apple and break it into smaller and smaller parts, you would find molecules, then atoms, followed by ...
Investopedia

What Is the Life-Cycle Hypothesis in Economics?

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...