At the dawn of 1980, Devo found itself facing an uncertain future. Although they had developed a rabid cult following for their radical reinvention of rock and roll on their first two albums, they ...

The school choice debate has taken a front seat in recent years as states across the country enact legislation in favor of more educational options for students. Voices against school choice have also ...

As an African-American born in the Deep South during the late 1930s, I lived without certain freedoms. At the outset of the civil rights movement, I became aware of how much I lacked. People of ...

Source: Carl Pickhardt Ph. D. With the onset of adolescence, the issue of “freedom of choice” becomes more central to the management of the parent/teenager relationship, and justly so. After all, when ...

Forty years ago this month, American art-rock band Devo released their breakthrough record, “Freedom Of Choice.” The album not only spawned the new wave smash “Whip It,” but the full-length still ...

A famous psychologist, Barry Schwartz, proposed the paradox of choice: the more options we have, the more anxious we become, and ironically, the less likely we are to make any decision at all. When ...

You may have seen a stunning video created by AI that shows young people from 1985 talking to us—the isolated humans stuck in the dystopian age of 2025. The video went viral perhaps because it feels ...

The restaurant as we know it was invented in Paris around the late 1700s. Foreign visitors called the city’s restaurants the “most peculiar” and “most remarkable” things. At a traditional inn or ...

An experimental game reveals that having the freedom to choose preferred public goods greatly increases their value by motivating more, and better, provisioning. From climate and biodiversity to ...

Dina Afrianty receives funding from Knowledge Sector Initiative, funded by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and implemented in partnership with Indonesia’s National Development ...