Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. We are sometimes willing to accept whatever generative AI ...

Now, as Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore seek discipline in their party caucuses they are discovering the once rigid and frigid conformity they relied upon from the Republican ...

The problem with today’s so-called progressives is that they do not believe in true progress. They believe in immediate and iron-fisted obedience — instant conformity to whatever happens to be their ...

Margaret Atwood’s novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, described the horror of the authoritarian regime of Gilead. In this theocracy, self-preservation was the best people could hope for, being powerless to ...

Deacons go through the laying-on of hands ritual during an ordination Mass on April 25, 2021, in St. Peter's Basilica at The Vatican, during which the pope ordained nine priests for his diocese as ...

Hannah Arendt’s insight into the psychology of obedience finds deep resonance—and some challenge—in the work of social psychologists who have explored how ordinary people become complicit in harm. The ...

America is barreling towards authoritarianism at such a breakneck pace that it should alarm every single one of us. But instead of meeting this moment with courage and integrity, the corporate media ...