There’s a certain amount of self-righteous gloating that goes on, left vs. right, in America today. That’s inevitable. But viewing from just one perspective is surely an error. This weekend’s Common Sense column over at Townhall.com takes a cautious look at the biases below the surface.
Click on over, and then come back for more reading.
Note, though there are a number of links in the article, a few more are worth looking at:
- Breitbart.com’s headlined coverage of the recent Rasmussen Report
- Breitbart.com’s coverage of an earlier Rasmussen Report — it’s worth noting that responses on the issue of gun violence have changed rapidly in recent months
- Wikipedia’s list of cognitive biases
- Herbert Spencer’s The Study of Sociology
- Herbert Spencer’s
From Freedom to Bondage,
(introduction to A Plea for Liberty, Thomas Mackay, ed.)