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Inequality Studies
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Americans believe they can outthink suffering. Historian Kate Bowler explains how our obsession with self-help, optimization, and positivity became a kind of secular religion.
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Is “identity synthesis” the remedy for racial injustice? This political scientist says no.
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Why most billionaires aren’t geniuses and most geniuses aren’t billionaires, explained by political scientist Brian Klaas.
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Effective altruism isn’t just for the rich. Philosopher Peter Singer shares how we can all be better at doing “good.”
39mins
Throw away your history books — here’s what life in ancient Rome was really like, according to Cambridge scholar Mary Beard.
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Age expert Dr. Morgan Levine explains why living to 100 is the wrong goal.
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People say we are better off than ever. Are they right?
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No one is teaching us how to be online. That’s a problem.
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Why marriage is thriving — and dying — in different American classes.
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“There’s a sense of crisis today that we did not have in the 1980’s or 90’s” — economist Tyler Cowen on progress in America.
John Templeton Foundation
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Collective illusions — false assumptions about society that many people share — have existed for thousands of years in many different ways. Today, because of social media and modern technology, […]
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Two-thirds of our days are spent alone. The Metaverse will bring us together, argues leading Metaverse thinker Matthew Ball.
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Black women are 3x more likely to die giving birth. Here’s one plan to fix that.
We all play the genetic lottery - and the outcome matters a lot.
John Templeton Foundation