(05/12/2020) Having described the idiosyncratic constellation of traits that correlate with political outlook in the last episode, this...

(04/30/2020) Does it ever seem like when people are arguing about politics, they are actually arguing about much more fundamental...

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I'd like to try to convey some of what I've learned over the years fighting against ecological collapse and for a viable form of human...

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We've looked at some of the psychological traits that correlate with ideology, but what about those that don't? Considering the tendency...

Having described the right-left spectrum in psychological terms, we will now examine the psychology of the liberal, an entity sometimes...

In this three-part series, we ask what underlying differences produce political conflict. First, we describe the idiosyncratic group of...

Having described the biology of aggression, we discuss the hypothesis that right-left political difference reflects variation in...

Fight Like An Animal is a podcast exploring the evolutionary biology that shapes societies and politics. Why do people have different...

Here is the second episode of Fight Like An Animal: Biology and Politics. This podcast is now available on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and...

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I spent a lot of 2014-2018 trying to get people to blockade trains carrying fossil fuels. Occasionally, it worked, and sometimes the...