Amanda Ripley

Amanda Ripley is a New York Times bestselling author, Washington Post contributor, and co-founder of consultancy firm, Good Conflict. Her books include The Smartest Kids in the World, High Conflict, and The Unthinkable.

A person with short hair stands outside near a chain-link fence, holding green leaves with the sun casting a soft light.

Fragmented image of the U.S. flag with white stars on a blue background and red and beige stripes, resembling weathered paint on a wall.

The one temptation to resist post-election: Good vs. evil

“Most of us aren’t sure what to think about everything, but we don’t really see that modeled anywhere, right? You’re supposed to know for sure, and there’s very little intellectual humility on social media or on TV.”

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Amanda Ripley

The Past

The groundbreaking optimism of catastrophe expert Samuel Henry Prince

How “Catastrophe and Social Change” (1920) became the first systematic analysis of human behavior in a disaster.