Obama embodies the most basic, ancient requirements of a true leader. He inspires admiration, trust, and the desire to be led by him. He's clearly a superior human being without a superior attitude.

My (CPR) recent post in response to Satoshi Kanazawa's musings on the sexual appeal of "fat chicks" seems to have touched a bit of a nerve. Not a major nerve, but still...

The premise of the question "Can men and women be friends?" is confusing. What is it that obstructs friendship between men and women, exactly? The presence of desire? The awkwardness of its absence? Still, it's a valid question, that many ask (When Harry Met Sally is a 90 minute meditation on the issue), but still....

Anyone who takes evolutionary psychology seriously has to overcome the fact that many of the most prominent voices in the field don't.

With a week to go until the election, professional talkers are talking about the voters who have not yet made up their minds. In the past few days, I’ve heard governors, senators, congresspeople, and pundits of every stripe opine on who these people are and what they need to hear in order to come to a decision.

According to Ben Bernake of the Federal Reserve, the current economic crisis is "a matter for psychology" because the essence of the crisis is a failure of confidence.

When the subject of our book comes up at parties, as it tends to do (who doesn’t love to be scandalized after a few drinks?), the conversation tends to follow a familiar pattern.

I've spent the past twenty years or so watching the culture of my birth from a distance. Whether that distance provides insight or just blurred vision is debatable, but from where I sit, I see one overwhelming crisis sweeping the nation: a growing inability -- or unwillingness -- to recognize and reject outright lies.

Barak Obama was raised without a father, but he's far from fatherless.

"Why did John Edwards lie?" Obviously, he lied because he knew the truth would sink his political ambitions. But why would it sink his political ambitions? Because he lied. Does anyone else notice the snake-eating-its-own-tail nature of this reasoning?