Politics And Human Nature

Why our systems of government are so dysfunctional: it’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

Infantile lies guarantee success. Image credit: Daily Thump

For a couple of decades after World War II it was transiently fashionable among the lefty-trendy set to pretend that there is no such thing as human nature and that all our behaviors are shaped purely by the social conventions we happen to grow up in. While this was an amusing…