The philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote in The Origins of Totalitarianism that “a mixture of gullibility and cynicism is ...

If there is indeed a sucker born every minute, there are at least three con artists born every 30 seconds destined to take him for a ride. We are going through an epidemic of Pigeon Fever, ...

They say Abraham Lincoln once posed this question: If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have? Four. Because calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg. This may come as a surprise to ...

Our newspapers frequently offer an odd juxtaposition of events daring us to see parallels, to compare and contrast. Glenn Cook’s column in the Sunday Review-Journal on how the Social Security and ...

Would you accept an offer to lose 15 pounds in a month with no special diet or exercise, enjoy a luxurious Hawaiian vacation for only $199, or earn $5,000 while working from home only three or four ...

If you asked the average person why public education was created, he or she would likely say “to make it possible for people to work.” But the actual reason was to make people less gullible. The first ...

Think grandma and grandpa are the most likely to fall for Internet scams? Think again, suggests a study on gullibility released earlier this month. Younger, less educated, underpaid Americans are the ...

Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa and Barry Bonds gave the average sports fan what he wanted – a thrill. Those amazing years of 60-plus home runs (and 98 mph fastballs by middle-aged Roger Clemens) changed the ...

The recent prediction of the end of the world by Harry Camping and his followers has brought into sharp relief how gullible people can be when it comes to the matter of religious belief. To believe ...

PERHAPS I may claim to be a member of the intellectual class, as I am a college professor of the old-fashioned sort — old-fashioned, that is, in having received a liberal education; but I do not wear ...