Aesthetics and politics: Donald Trump’s idea of art and beauty

By Louis René Beres President Donald Trump’s description of Confederate statues as “beautiful” merely mirrors his previously-mentioned objects of aesthetic preference. Before the statues, there was the More...

Moral decisions can be manipulated by eye tracking

  Many of the choices we face in daily life have a moral character, from deciding whether to give money to a homeless person asking for change to separating out recyclables from the trash. “People More...

Carl Icahn Says Family Dollar Is ‘Another Validation of Activist Investor Philosophy’

Carl Icahn took a victory lap on news that Family Dollar (FDO) is going to sell itself to Dollar Tree (DLTR), and called the deal “yet another validation of activist investor philosophy.” However, More...

Business Dilemma in a Nutshell

– In the aforementioned prisoner’s dilemma, the police offered two criminals the chance to snitch on one another and minimize their sentence.  If we transfer this model to the period of the “cottage More...