Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo recently made a statement that Guyana has some stupid people. His words were, “And this country got some really stupid people, really.” For three decades Jagdeo has sat ...

Fifty years ago, in his most famous work, the prolific intellectual Carlo Cipolla argued that stupid people, as a group, are “much more powerful than the mafia, or the military industrial complex.” An ...

Stupid people have lots of problems. They mess up, foul up, and screw up. In a world in which intelligence is adaptive, stupid people obtain less value, and they suffer the consequences. To combat ...