The divisiveness in American politics today is almost entirely attributable to the existence of epistemic closure. Simply put, epistemic closure is an advanced and extreme form of confirmation bias -- or, in a colloquial sense, it's what we often refer to as bubbles or ...read more

By Bob Cesca: Last week, when the conservative British commentator Stuart Varney said on Fox News Channel that every poll, including the Fox News poll presumably, doesn't "feel right" and dismissed the "mathematical gobbledegook" used to ascertain the respective results, it ...read more