Tag Archives: Politics & Society

.[embedded content]

Aluhüten, Verschwörungstheorien und Coronaskepsis .[embedded content]

Grow up and get vaccinated!

Political correctness? No thanks! .[embedded content]

Several years later I developed a broader theory of what separates the two general classes of learners—helpless versus mastery-oriented. I realized that these different types of students not only explain their failures differently, but they also hold different “theories” of intelligence. The helpless ones believe that intelligence is a fixed trait: you have only a certain amount, and that’s that. I call this a “fixed mind-set.” Mistakes crack their self-confidence because they...

.[embedded content]

Tax the rich? Yes!

Sweden’s corona strategy — a success story

Adorno in 60 Minuten .[embedded content]

Sarah Palin — the anti-vax rocket scientist Sarah Palin, rocket scientist, offered her thoughts on the coronavirus vaccine at a far-right conference in Arizona over the weekend. “It will be over my dead body that I’ ll have to get a shot,” she proclaimed. Unlikely, governor. Phase III trials have shown that the vaccines fail to generate a robust immune response when administered to dead people. But Palin’s talk of dead bodies is on point. By discouraging...