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Why are celebrities, CEOs, and politicians three different types of people who don’t overlap much?
Wondering how to make clear our cultural drift problem, it occurred to me that historical fiction, especially using time travel, could make vivid how key norms and values have actually changed greatly over time, and not always in obviously good ways.
Most of our activities can be seen as nested plans, to achieve nested goals.
Christians often ask themselves, as a guide to living, “What would Jesus do?” In her new book Open Socrates, my podcast-cohost Agnes Callard suggests we instead ask “What would Socrates do?”
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One of the stranger episodes from the 1950s golden age of psychedelic therapy, and what it tells us about the history of technology
An analysis of the World Jigsaw Puzzle Championship
Image via Wikimedia Commons In 590 AD, Pope Gregory I unveiled a list of the Seven Deadly Sins – lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride – as a way to keep the flock from straying into the thorny fields of ungodliness. These days, though, for all but the most devout, Pope Gregory’s list […]
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