“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore.” The quote from the 1976 movie Network is prophetic. Ratings are abysmal and someone needs to do something to salvage the network. The veteran ...

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There are two types of anger you might experience in life and both are perfectly valid. The first kind is what I’ll call sudden anger. It’s not logical at all, it’s always abrupt, and it’s perhaps ...

Harvey Mansfield, a longtime Harvard professor and one of the most astute commentators on public matters, once remarked, “You can tell who has power in a society by who is allowed to get angry.” That ...

Should a blind person be permitted to carry a gun in public? That’s the focus of a court battle currently underway in Iowa. Advocates for extending the “conceal and carry” law to include blind ...

As noted in the first post in this series on the emotions, Robert Trivers (1971) identified moralistic aggression, a.k.a. righteous anger, as one of the human adaptations that once helped to “regulate ...

Lexi McKee-Hemenway leads a march across the University of South Dakota campus in protest of the recent Supreme Court decision that triggered an abortion ban in the state. About 50 students came with ...

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