You are watching your favorite baseball team on a warm summer night when you hear three loud popping sounds. You don’t know what they are right away, and think first that there might have been some machine backfiring in the stadium. …

What does the next generation of psychology research look like? Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the world. Largely, this is because of all the ways it’s being used by tech companies. AI is behind facial identification (like when Facebook automatically recognizes someone in a photograph you post), translation (like the…

Tara Westover’s father raised her on stories of the corruption of “socialist doctors” and “liberal professors,” and even stressed that most mainstream Mormons weren’t living up to the strict standards he set for the family. When she recounts some of the monologues he delivered to her as she was growing…

“There’s a world out there, Tara,” he said. “And it will look a lot different once Dad is no longer whispering his view of it in your ear.” This is how Tara Westover recalls her brother, Tyler, trying to convince her to leave home and attend college. …

Tara Westover was not allowed to go to school. That was the most obvious difference between her and other children, she writes in her memoir, Educated. She also was not allowed to go to the doctor, with her family relying instead on herbal and naturalistic methods of healing. …

For the last couple of years, I have been part of a small reading group with a friend and colleague, Peter Leavitt, on political disagreements. Peter and I get together with a few other people from across the political spectrum to read and discuss books and articles from the left…