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Jesse Kluver

Jesse Kluver is a social and organizational psychology graduate student at Columbia University. He assists with research on intractable, protracted conflicts using the dynamical systems approach to understand the emergence, organization, and polarization of identity groups and moral communities. His primary areas of interest are in evolutionary, political, moral, and social psychology and he frequently writes about political ideology, changing social patterns, and the fallibility of human judgment. Before coming to New York City, Jesse served with the Marine Corps in Iraq and studied philosophy of science and psychology at the University of Minnesota.

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Scientific illiteracy is a mammoth menace

Scientific illiteracy is a mammoth menace

The lack of scientific knowledge and rational thinking in the US is a detriment to the nation and must be fixed

If atheists are to win their battle, they must separate religious culture from religious dictates

If atheists are to win their battle, they must separate religious culture from religious dictates

The atheist movement has been reinvigorated over recent years, but their appeals to logic and truth will become white noise unless they address the binding cultural roots of superstition.

How the Republicans fell for the soft bigotry of political iconography

How the Republicans fell for the soft bigotry of political iconography

The Republicans have appointed a Black man as their new Chairman, but this merely shows their preoccupation with political iconography and symbolism at the expense of serious policy.