If we continue to choose the latter, we will keep on losing our grip of reality, and we’ll keep on getting stupider.

He quotes dissident German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was murdered by the Nazis: “When you create an organization in ...

Are we getting stupider? David Brooks writes in the New York Times that stupidity has come to define our politics. Even intelligent people can also be stupid, he argues. They can come to believe ...