law – James Kenneth Rogers

The problem with elections

2011-10-06 James Kenneth Rogers Comments 1 comment

Even though the 2012 presidential elections are still over a year away, the news is already saturated with stories about the Republican candidates campaigning. We all take for granted that democracy is the ideal system of government, and that our system of elections is an ideal way to select our country’s leaders. But is it? Being a politician requires two completely different skill sets: campaigning skills and governing skills. The two skills sets are very different from one another. A…

Judging by appearances: sometimes it works

2011-05-06 James Kenneth Rogers Comments 3 comments

We’ve all heard that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. But a recent psychology study indicates that we may be able to make accurate judgments about certain aspects of people’s character “after minimal exposure to [their] physical appearance.” The study is titled “The Accuracy of Inferences About Criminality Based on Facial Appearance”1 and was performed by Jeffrey M. Valla, Stephen J. Ceci, and Wendy M. Williams of Cornell University and published in the Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and…

Do you really have a right to that?

2011-04-14 James Kenneth Rogers Comments 1 comment

Do we have a right to receive an education in the same way that we have a right to free speech? Do we have a right to healthcare in the same way that we have a right to own property? We often use the word “right” without thinking much about what the word actually means and without considering what the government is obligated to do about our rights. There are actually two very different conceptions of rights, and these two…

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