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A tour of history's most famous fictional detectives, from Poe's Auguste Dupin to Sherlock Holmes, the real-life doctors...

How Agatha Christie created Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective who solved crimes through psychology and toxicology —...

Agatha Christie's restless inventiveness gave us Miss Marple — her origins, her methods, and the village of St. Mary Mea...

In 1968 William Link drew the first lines of Columbo — the rumpled lieutenant whose shabby coat, broken car and "just on...

Jessica Fletcher is a blend of several fictional detectives, while Inspector Maigret tops them all in sheer number of st...

Dr. Misir Ali, the solitary smoking psychiatrist of Bengali literature, and Inspector Zaki, plus a look at the Five Adve...

The framing effect, the strawman fallacy, loaded words, confirmation bias and the availability heuristic — how they are...

How do you protect yourself and your children from logical fallacies? Fifteen practical rules for reasoning straight — a...

In 1953 an American intelligence officer named Edward Hunter coined the term "brainwashing" after Korean War prisoners r...

From Orwell's 1984 and the old battle of words and belief, Hunter traces how brainwashing works — and why it always begi...

The Symbionese Liberation Army, barely 21 members, terrorized the United States — and their kidnapping of Patty Hearst e...

The CIA's Project MKUltra turned brainwashing into a weapon, and Patty Hearst's case forced experts to examine it as a p...