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incredible work in applied behavioral economics that was happening in the government, specifically using the power of defaults to encourage positive behavior. These defaults are known as nudges, made famous in the bestseller Nudge, by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein.

Berlin, lui, pense que l’État devrait défendre la « liberté négative » des citoyens – leur liberté contre les interférences d’autrui – tout en les laissant poursuivre leur « liberté positive », leur conception d’une vie de bien. L’État devrait résister à la tentation de se mêler de la vie privée des citoyens et ne devrait jamais essayer de soigner

Harry Britt, Harvey Milk’s chosen successor, introduced a bill to the board of supervisors that would give health insurance benefits to the live-in partners of city employees. It passed—only to be vetoed by Mayor George Moscone’s successor, Dianne Feinstein, who caved to pressure from San Francisco’s Roman Catholic churches. “To reduce the sacred c

“The Evolution of Altruistic Behavior.”

we have to raise the question of whether algorithm design should be structured according to the logic of “fairness,” read as color and gender blindness, or according to the logic of racial, gender, and disability justice.

Of the greatest importance, however, is that since Social Justice has taken such pains to establish absolute hegemony over the discourses relevant to these issues—especially on the left and in the center—other reasonable and moderate voices are the least likely to enter the conversation with reasonable and moderate alternatives to Social Justice’s

The narrative of Free America remained as inflexible as any ideology: tax cuts and deregulation = freedom and prosperity. Decade after decade you encountered its mantra, like the rituals of a cargo cult, on the website of the Cato Institute, the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, broadcasts of The Rush Limbaugh Show, and the platform of the

The people around us influence how we perceive the global society. In other words, we use our own social milieu to make inferences about how people we don’t know live their lives. But this may backfire when we live in homogeneous social environments and rarely meet people living in different circumstances. English psychologist Rael Dawtry and his c