Diamond's argument stands in sharp contrast to the conventional explanations for a society's collapse.
Mr. Kerry's explanations for a number of the recent stances Republicans are branding as flip-flops have a common thread.
These are all plausible explanations for a zebra's stripes, and until recently it's been hard to choose between them.
Many profiles of Trump voters positioned personal stories as explanations for a terrible collective act; meanwhile, Clinton's purported reliance on identity politics has been heavily criticized.
Dr. Roscoe, the New Jersey wildlife pathologist, said there were not always absolute explanations for a disease's restriction to a single species.
The Trump White House has a similar problem, evidenced most recently by Donald Trump, Jr.,'s shifting explanations for a meeting with a Russian lawyer last June.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet These are all plausible explanations for a zebra's stripes, and until recently it's been hard to choose between them.
Diplomacy often boils down to two simple elements: taking away excuses for inaction and providing explanations for a deal that could be struck.
When people are dealing with some of the most important choices in their lives, like how to raise their children, and something unsettling happens, "your brain will reach for explanations, for a sense of order".
On the whole, though, Mr Silver sees the electoral-college advantage for the Democrats persisting.Mr Silver is more convincing than most pundits, whose less numerical explanations for a political realignment seem to reappear every four years.
Besides, the rise-of-China thesis is about the location of investment more than about changes in its global level.In sum, none of these explanations for a structural, global decline in investment is altogether convincing.
