Scientific knowledge is like any other area of specialized knowledge: the average person is rationally ignorant and will use ideology and rules-of-thumb, rather than the expert knowledge that they do not possess, to guide their behavior.
Eric Klinenberg argues that local, decentralized, and spontaneous responses to disasters are so important for recovery that they need to be legislated at the Federal level.
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The perennial problem of the male-skewed gender ratio within the libertarian movement may not be as perplexing or as unique as it first appears. To understand why so few women identify as libertarian, we need to understand the social trade-offs that they face when publicly supporting any radical ideology. Fortunately, this is one problem that is probably solving itself.
