I disagree with the argument of this piece, it’s an eloquent defense (I didn’t even know one was possible until I read this) of cancel culture
Unfortunately, the world’s most prominent specialists are rarely held accountable for their predictions, so we continue to rely on them even when their track records make clear that we should not.
Thanatos is the force of self-preservation in us. It is quite happy to watch the whole world burn down — as long as we stand atop the embers. Thanatos is the need in us for superiority, for conquest, for primacy.
How perfectionism has become an epidemic for millenials.
I always thought The Lindy Effect really makes no sense
The very BEST review of Taleb, and this like him 🙂
How to respect, without excusing, thinkers from the past.
Why Americans Struggle to Understand Social Democracy
He was a rebel, against orthodoxy of all kinds.
The political roots of the term ‘modernity’
Reconsidering divorce in Nigeria
Les Moonves and the Familiarity Fallacy
Because George Soros has always had his eyes open
“that access to the means of sustaining good health, the opportunity to learn from the wisdom accumulated in our culture, and the expectation that one may do so in a decent home and neighborhood are not privileges to be reserved for the few who have learned to game the system. They are rights that follow from the same source as those that an earlier generation called life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Why men are not vulnerable – and why they should be
I think that that’s such a metaphor of something for the existence of so-called well-off people that they’re not really well-off — they won’t even scream in their own house.
The origins of purpose-driven Rwanda
I thought these exact thoughts. Someone fleshed them out.
Roseanne’s astonishing success should serve as a much-needed wake-up call
