My forthcoming book, Overdoing Democracy: Why We Must Put Politics in its Place, argues that polarization isn’t about where you get your news or how politicians are divided — it’s about how a person’s ...

Conservative commentator and “man on every poster this week” Ben Shapiro originally planned to come to Stanford on Thursday for “Facts Don’t Care About Your Feelings” — a lecture where ...

Dear Dr. E: I’ve listened to you on the radio several times and heard you refer to Ben Shapiro’s quote where he says, “The facts don’t care about your feelings.” Can you tell me again ...

A favorite talking point of the political right is that “facts don’t care about your feelings.” The sentiment is often inappropriately and inaccurately applied to situations that don’t warrant it, but ...