Absence of support for undemocratic practices in America masks an important threat—democratic neutrality (neither supporting nor opposing them).

Research by Hall et al finds this to be a prevalent attitude to at least one undemocratic practice:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02430-7

A child’s ability to understand the link between counting and quantity is a strong predictor of school readiness.

New research suggests parental math anxiety significantly influence the development of this quantitative ability:

https://www.psypost.org/parental-math-anxiety-linked-to-lower-quantitative-skills-in-young-children/

“…if risky behavior does not vary by income, we should conclude that the poor are more irresponsible than the rich,” writes @bryan_caplan, master of the countermoralintuitive observation:

https://www.betonit.ai/p/income_and_irrehtml

Kierkegaard dons a mask and wants your knowledge:

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/645

Most of us might frown upon untruths in accounting, but we might well be more tolerant of “little white lies” in marketing, negotiating and salesmanship.

Does lying have a legitimate role in Business?

In-house ethicist John Paul Rollert discusses:

https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/ihe-podcast/whats-role-lying-business

Why is there such a strong aversion to the use of AI?

Research by Oldemburg de Mello et al finds AI is moralized at levels comparable to GMOs, suggesting pragmatic arguments are not enough to reap the benefits of AI—moral concerns must also be addressed:

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/5mwre_v9

Increasing the state pension by more than price or wage inflation is not necessarily a bad idea.

What is a bad idea is doing so without stating when a ‘temporary’ measure will be stopped—with many examples, like Britain’s state pension’s “triple lock”:

https://koenfucius.substack.com/p/the-exits-nobody-plans-for

We sometimes treat ourselves as consolation when we’ve had a bad day, or as a reward for an achievement.

New research suggests there are patterns in what we choose as such ‘self-gifts’, depending on our emotions of the moment:

https://www.bps.org.uk/research-digest/your-choice-treat-isnt-spontaneous-you-think

Research by Abdulhai et al suggests Large Language Models generate text that is more neutral than human-written prose, and both more analytical and more emotional:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18161

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