#politics

What happens when people feel unheard and vote for a demagogue? What Plato attributed to the concept of ‘Thymos’ 2,400 years ago, today finds a tangible connection in the brain. The ramifications for democratic thought are profound.

To understand the nature of money, we need to put aside conventional textbook knowledge and rethink our assumptions about the topic, says political economist Samuel A. Chambers. We spoke with him about the intricacies of this everyday phenomenon that tends to slip through our fingers just when we think we’ve got it all figured out.