American Consequences

Andrew Ferguson

May 2018

The Social Sciences

In the summer of 2015, a group of well-credentialed researchers announced that they had tried to replicate the findings of the most influential experiments in the field of social psychology... and 61% of the attempted replications failed.

October 2017

Does Character Matter in Politics?

The relationship of character to politics was much in the news last year, as two candidates of – shall we say? – questionable character sought to lead us. Whether the character of our leaders truly matters is a question as old as the idea of self...