# Richard J. Shinder

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## Articles by Richard J. Shinder

- [Gym Etiquette, Risk Management and Social Credit](https://humanevents.com/opinion/gym-etiquette-risk-management-and-social-credit.md) — 2022-05-24 — As I was working out at my gym recently, my thoughts turned to social credit regimes, transparency and risk analysis. I beg your indulgence. Like most totems of civilized society, gym etiquette is…
- [From Amplification to Celebration: A Brief History of Tech-Enabled Ignorance](https://humanevents.com/opinion/from-amplification-to-celebration-a-brief-history-of-tech-enabled-ignorance.md) — 2022-05-13 — Growing up, I don’t recall the words “disinformation” and “misinformation” being in common usage. While deception has been with us since the Garden of Eden, it took the advance of information…
- [Understanding the Current Populist Moment](https://humanevents.com/opinion/understanding-the-current-populist-moment.md) — 2022-02-23 — The erosion of public trust in American institutions is among those perennial conversational parlor games whereby just when one thinks it can’t get any worse, it does. Gallup has surveyed the degree…
- [The Nature of Order](https://humanevents.com/opinion/the-nature-of-order.md) — 2022-01-18 — The dawn of 2022 finds the notion of public order back in vogue, after eighteen months of unchallenged lawlessness and disorder frequently endorsed by elites. Newly-elected Mayor Eric Adams of New…