Jag Bhalla
Mother Jones
Washington, DC, United States
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Biotech Greed Is Prolonging the Pandemic. It’s Inexcusable.
A flawed logic is being used to justify corporate profits over human lives. → Read More
Why aren't we trying to be better ancestors?
Do we have a duty to be "good ancestors"? Creating a legacy of a climate-worsened world is like shooting your kids in the foot. Who are you free to harm? If not any one else, then surely not everyone else? Third-hand carbon counts as an ambient harm that will burden all future humans. → Read More
Why do the good guys have to beat the climate cheats?
There's concrete tradeoff logic lurking beneath the numbers and market abstractions. → Read More
Ending the “endless growth” fairytale needs moral clarity
Jag Bhalla examines the idea of economic growth and its disastrous impact on climate change. → Read More
Should we blame biology for our biosphere-bashing behavior?
Determining whether human nature is short-sighted when it comes to survival-necessary situations → Read More
Judea Pearl's 'The Book of Why' shakes up correlation vs. causality
A much-needed "causal revolution" has arrived in Judea Pearl's 'The Book of Why'. But despite vast improvements over "trad stats", there's cause for concern over logic-losing numbers. → Read More
American healthcare shows why we can't trust market spin doctors
Free-market fans often fail to see how self-interest can create diseased-market games. Robert Frank helps diagnose American healthcare's deadly trillion-dollar disease. → Read More
Trillions of once-invested dollars now go into what's almost a Ponzi scheme
Few know about the trillion dollar crime that stole pay raises while weakening our economy. The “lootocrats” and their courtiers are taking us for a ride. → Read More
What Red Brakes and Genes Show About What Stats Can't Do
We can “read” genes with ease now, but still can’t say what most of them “mean.” To show why we need clearer “causology” and fitter metaphors, let's scrutinize cars and their parts like we do bodies and genes. → Read More
An Ambitiously Short History of Ambition
Why did Shakespeare find fault in ambition? → Read More
All Good Businesses Should Want Regulation. Why? Look at the Poultry Industry.
A common belief that regulations are a burden on businesses is challenged by Maryn McKenna’s book Big Chicken. → Read More
Does the Crisis in Science Show That It Is Broken, or Self-Correcting?
Is "science broken" or self-correcting? And who is going to do the grown-up thing and fix the game (instead of scoring points within it)? → Read More
A Very Short History of All Feelings
Does happiness require a rebellion against evolution? → Read More
Science is catching up to the Buddha
Does happiness require a rebellion against evolution? → Read More
A “Jump To The Gene” Approach Risks Mistaking the Music for the Piano
We're at risk of mistaking the music for the piano in using a “jump to the gene” approach to biology. It's time for a more fitting view of genes to evolve. → Read More
Key logic in America’s Founding Documents Is Being Neglected
Key logic in America’s founding documents is now too often neglected. Do you know what “the Declaration” lists as the first justification for America’s Independence? → Read More
Is the Reign of Rationalism Headed for History’s Dustbin?
How did our world come to be ruled by a view of human nature that contradicts the testimony of much of history, and the bulk of the arts, and your daily experience? Mathoholics are to blame. → Read More
Happiness Bootcamp: And Why It's Harmful to Equate “Happiness” With Things Beyond Your Control
Our way of life needs a skills upgrade, to reinstall certain old stoic ideas. Using your rights well needs "happiness bootcamp" skills. → Read More
William Shakespeare's 10 Principles of Wisdom
Art is a key source of wisdom (it's effects can be powerfully mind-altering). Here are some examples from Shakespeare (from Michael Witmore, director of the Folger Shakespeare Library). → Read More
10 principles of wisdom from William Shakespeare
Art is a key source of wisdom (it's effects can be powerfully mind-altering). Here are some examples from Shakespeare (from Michael Witmore, director of the Folger Shakespeare Library). → Read More