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For the last year or so I’ve focused on the idea that our world’s dominant monoculture is slowly going maladaptive, due to cultural drift.
While anyone can buy stock in public firms, private equity firms are instead held by a more concentrated and exclusive set of owners.
In her new book, my podcast co-host Agnes Callard does a great job of expressing classic philosophical angst.
While most foragers had great respect for nature, our farmer-era ancestors had less resepct.
Compared to before writing, religions that had sacred texts were better able to resist changes to their religious dogmas and dogma-enforce social rules.
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One often hears that there’s no money to be made in music anymore. But then, there was no money to be made in music when Bob Dylan started his career either—at least according to Bob Dylan. “If you could just support yourself, you were doin’ good,” he says in an interview clip included in the […]
Pain Management before Anaesthetics JamesHoare Wed, 03/12/2025 - 09:02
As a New York City subway rider, I am constantly exposed to public health posters. More often than not these feature a photo of a wholesome-looking teen whose sober expression is meant to convey hindsight regret at having taken up drugs, dropped out of school, or forgone condoms. They’re well-intended, but boring. I can’t imagine […]
