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Books
Abbott, Edwin Abbott
Acemoglu, Daron
Alter, Adam
Andersen, Chris
Andersen, Kurt
Ariely, Dan
MisbeLIEf: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things
The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone – Especially Ourselves
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions
Bail, Chris
Bahcall, Safi
Barzun, Jacques
Berger, Jonah
Bergstrom, Karl; West, Jevin
Bielenberg, John; Burn, Mike; Galle, Greg, Evitts Dickinson, Elizabeth
Boghossian, Peter; Lindsay, James
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
Boorstin, Daniel
Brockman, John
Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction in Life and Markets
This Will Make You Smarter: 150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
Brooks, David
Bradbury, Ray
Bruni, Frank
Burkeman, Oliver
Bryson, Bill
Byung-Chul, Han
Carr, Nicholas
Cain, Susan
Carnegie, Dale
Christensen, Clayton
Cialdini, Robert
Clark, Cristopher
Clear, James
Cohen, Herb
Collier, Paul
Colonna, Jerry
Correa, Cristiane
Coughlin, Joseph
Crawford, Matthew
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly
Cuddy, Amy
Davidson, James Dale
Dalio, Ray
Dauber Sterne, Abi; Gringras, Robbie
De Bono, Edward
De Solla Price, Derek
Deresiewicz, William
Diamond, Jared
Diamandis, Peter; Kotler, Steven
Dicks, Matthew
Dobelli, Rolf
Dweck, Carol
Duckworth, Angela
Duhigg, Charles
Durant, Will; Durant, Ariel
Eger, Edith Eva
Ellenberg, Jordan
Epstein, David
Eyal, Nir
Fensterheim, Herbert
Ferguson, Niall
Forleo, Marie
Frankl, Viktor
French, David
Fromm, Erich
Fukuyama, Francis
Galef, Julia
Gans, Joshua; Leigh, Andrew
García, Héctor; Miralles, Francesc
Gates, Bill
Gigerenzer, Gerd
Gilbert, Daniel
Gillkey, Charlie
Gladwell, Malcolm
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Gleick, James
Godin, Seth
Goldberg, Jonah
Goleman, Daniel
Gordon, Robert
Grant, Adam
Greenblatt, Jonathan
Greene, Robert
Gurri, Martin
Guzmán, Mónica
Haass, Richard
Haidt, Jonathan
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Haidt, Jonathan; Cicirelli, David; Reeves, Richard
Hansen, Brant
Harari, Yuval Noah
Hargittai, Istvan
Heffernan, Margaret
Heying, Heather; Weinstein, Bret
Hoffer, Eric
Hofstadter, Douglas
Holiday, Ryan
Horowitz, Ben
Hunter, James
Huxley, Aldous
Isaacson, Walter
Jarvis, Jeff
Johnson, Spencer
Kafka, Franz
Kawasaki, Guy
Kahneman, Daniel
Kasparov, Garry
Kenrick, Douglas; Lundberg-Kenrick, David
Kelly, Kevin
Khan, Salman
Klein, Ezra
Klosterman, Chuck
Kolbert, Elizabeth
Krznaric, Roman
Kuhn, Thomas
Lamott, Anne
Lanier, Jaron
Lembke, Anna
Levene, Uri
Levitt, Steven; Dubner, Stephen
Lewis, Michael
Lewis, Sinclair
Lewis, Verlan; Lewis, Hyrum
Lightman, Alan
Lippmann, Walter
Lukianoff, Greg; Haidt, Jonathan
Lukianoff, Greg; Schlott, Rikki
Lynch, Michael P.
MacAskill, William
Mark, Gloria
Mason, Lilliana
Mazarr, Michael
McCandless, David
McLuhan, Marshall; Lapham, Lewis
McGonigal, Kelly
Mchangama, Jacob
McRaney, David
McWhorter, John
Meadows, Donella
Montell, Amanda
Morozov, Evgeny
Moore, Geoffrey
Mounk, Yascha
The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure
The People Versus Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It
Murphy, Mary; Dweck, Carol
Murray, Douglas
Nisbet, Robert
Norman, Don
Design for a Better World: How to Create a Meaningful, Sustainable, and Humanity-Centered Future (2024)
Novogratz, Jacqueline
O’Neil, Cathy
Orwell, George
Pariser, Eli
Patel, Eboo
Patton, Bruce; Stone, Douglas; Heen, Sheila
Pearl, Judea
Perry, Scott
Peterson, Jordan
Pink, Daniel
Pinker, Steven
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Plattelli-Palmarini, Massimo
Postman, Neil; Postman, Andrew
Putnam, Robert
The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Redstone, Ilana
Rauch, Jonathan
Ridley, Matt
Ritchie, Hannah
Rosling, Hans; Rosling, Ola; Rosling Rönnlund, Anna
Rotenberg, Mordechai
Rubin, Gretchen
Rubin, Rick
Sacks, Jonathan
The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations
The Great Partnership: Science, Religion, and the Search for Meaning
The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations
Sapolsky, Robert
Senge, Peter
Schulz, Kathryn
Seo, Bo
Schwartz, Barry
Shapiro, Daniel
Sharansky, Natan
Shekerjian, Denise
Shrier, Abigail
Silver, Nate
Sinek, Simon
Singer, P.W.; Brooking, Emerson
Skenazy, Lenore
Smil, Vaclav
Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure
How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going
Numbers Don’t Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World
Snow, C.P.
Snyder, Timothy
Stanovich, Keith
Strauss, William
Suleyman, Mustafa; Bhaskar, Michael
Sunstein, Cass
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Taub, Daniel
Beyond Debate (2025)
Tavris, Caroll; Aronson, Elliot
Telushkin, Joseph
Thaler, Richard; Sunstein, Cass
Thiel, Peter
Toyama, Kentaro
Tuchman, Barbara
Tufte, Edward
Turkle, Sherry
Twenge, Jean
Urban, Tim
Walter, Barbara
Watts, Duncan
Weinberg, Gabriel; McCann, Lauren
Wiesel, Elie
Wilson, Edward
Wooden, John; Carty, Jay
Wright, Robert
Wu, Tim
Zakaria, Fareed
Zaki, Jamil
Zuboff, Shoshana
Articles
Achenbach, Joel: Science is revealing why American politics are so intensely polarized: Political psychologists say they see tribalism intensifying, fueled by contempt for the other side Washington Post. 20-Jan-2024.
Altman, Sam: I’m a Silicon Valley liberal, and I traveled across the country to interview 100 Trump supporters — here’s what I learned. Business Insider. 23-Feb-2017.
Amenabar, Teddy: 9 tips to debunk false claims made by friends and family: It’s important to debunk misinformation when we can — a task that often, unfortunately, starts at home. Washington Post. 05-Oct-2022.
Andreessen, Marc: Why AI Will Save the World. Andreesen / Horowitz. 06-Jun-2023.
Anthony, Ted: How the American Dream convinces people loneliness is normal. AP News. 16-May-2023.
Baharaeen, Michael: Much Of America’s Political Divide Is An Illusion: Reducing fear between America’s tribal factions is the first step to alleviating the destructive effects of our polarization. Persuasion. 13-Jun-2023.
Balaker, Ted: Coddling College Kids Makes Gen Z Mental Health Crisis Worse. Newsweek. 21-Nov-2024.
Berlin, Isaiah: A Message to the 21st Century. Dilip Simeon. 25-Nov-1994.
Blanda, Sean: The ‘Other Side’ Is Not Dumb: Is it possible we’re not right about everything? Medium. 07-Jan-2016.
Brooks, David: Why We Got It So Wrong. NY Times. 14-Nov-2024.
Brooks, David: The Junkification of American Life. NY Times. 05-Sep-2024.
Brooks, David: You’re Only as Smart as Your Emotions. NY Times. 15-Aug-2024.
Brooks, David: The Great Struggle for Liberalism. NY Times. 28-Mar-2024.
Brooks, David: The Cure for What Ails Our Democracy. NY Times. 15-Feb-2024.
Brooks, David: Universities Are Failing at Inclusion. NY Times. 16-Nov-2023.
Brooks, David: What if We’re the Bad Guys Here? NY Times. 02-Aug-2023.
Brooks, David: ‘Human Beings Are Soon Going to Be Eclipsed’. NY Times. 13-Jul-2023.
Brooks, David: What Our Toxic Culture Does to the Young. NY Times. 04-May-2023.
Brooks, David: In the Age of A.I., Major in Being Human. NY Times. 02-Feb-2023.
Brooks, David: I Was Wrong About Capitalism. NY Times. 21-Jul-2022.
Brooks, David: You Are Not Who You Think You Are: How the Brain Shapes Reality and Imagination. NY Times. 02-Sep-2021.
Brooks, David: How to Actually Make America Great: Reversing 50 years of social decline. NY Times. 15-Oct-2020.
Brooks, David: The Four American Narratives. NY Times. 26-May-2017.
Bruni, Frank: The Most Important Thing I Teach My Students Isn’t on the Syllabus. NY Times. 20-Apr-2023.
Cohen, Sacha Baron: The ‘Silicon Six’ spread propaganda. It’s time to regulate social media sites: A pluralistic democracy depends on shared truths. Washington Post. 25-Nov-2019.
Costello, Thomas; Pennycook, Gordon; Rand, David: Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI. Science. 14-Sep-2024.
Dalio, Ray: The Coming Great Conflict. TIME. 25-Jun-2024.
Dalio, Ray: Declines of Truth, Trust, and the Rule of Law Have Throughout History Led to, and Are Now Leading to, Disorder. LinkedIn. 22-Aug-2023.
Dalio, Ray: What I Think Is Going On 1) with China-US Relations, 2) with Their Relations with Other Countries, and 3) in China. LinkedIn. 26-Apr-2023.
Dalio, Ray: Not Only Can We Avoid War But We Can Have the Best Times Ever. LinkedIn. 02-Nov-2022.
Deresiewicz, William: Take A Position, Not A Side: Towards a healthier civic discourse. Persuasion. 02-Oct-2023.
Deresiewicz, William: Chuck Your Privilege: How college students can exercise real humility. Persuasion. 06-Sep-2023.
Duhigg, Charles: The Real Roots of American Rage: The untold story of how anger became the dominant emotion in our politics and personal lives — and what we can do about it. The Atlantic. 10-Dec-2018.
Edsall, Thomas: One Thing We Can Agree On Is That We’re Becoming a Different Country. NY Times. 08-Sep-2021.
Eisner, Jane: A rabbi’s final call for a commitment to the common good. Washington Post. 26-Nov-2020.
Freeder, Sean: Malice and Stupidity: Outgroup Motive Attribution and Affective Polarization. 01-Nov-2020.
Friend, David: How the freak show took over America.: 30 years ago, Paula Jones and O.J. Simpson changed America’s culture. We’re still living in the aftermath. Washington Post. 27-Jun-2024.
Galloway, Scott: Having More Babies: More brains, more ideas. However, we’re in danger of running out of ideas because we’re running out of people. Medium. 28-Jan-2023.
Gans, Joshua: AI and the paperclip problem. CEPR / VOX-EU. 10-Jun-2018.
Gay, Roxane: Why People Are So Awful Online. NY Times. 17-Jul-2021.
Gerson, Michael: Humans reach for godhood — and leave their humanity behind. Washington Post. 26-Jun-2017.
Gioia, Ted: Is Silicon Valley Building Universe 25?: How a creepy experiment from 1968 is eerily relevant today. The Honest Broker. 10-Jun-2024.
Gioia, Ted: The State of the Culture, 2024: Or a glimpse into post-entertainment society (it’s not pretty). The Honest Broker. 18-Feb-2024.
Godin, Seth: If you want to change minds… Seth’s Blog. 01-Oct-2019.
Gray, Kurt: We’ve Misunderstood Human Nature for 100 Years. NY Times. 22-Dec-2024.
Gurri, Martin: All Immigrants Are Born on the Fourth of July. The Free Press. 04-Jul-2023.
Haidt, Jon; Rausch, Zach: TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale: Recently revealed text in legal briefs tells a damning story about the company, in its employees’ own words After Babel. 09-Jan-2025.
Haidt, Jonathan: Why I’m Increasingly Worried About Boys, Too: Since the 1970s, boys have been pushed away from the real world and pulled into the virtual. After Babel. 06-Dec-2023.
Haidt, Jonathan: The Case for Phone-Free Schools: The research is clear: Smartphones undermine attention, learning, relationships, and belonging. After Babel. 06-Jun-2023.
Haidt, Jonathan: Why the Mental Health of Liberal Girls Sank First and Fastest: Evidence for Lukianoff’s reverse CBT hypothesis. After Babel. 09-Mar-2023.
Haidt, Jonathan: Why the Past 10 Years of American Life have been Uniquely Stupid: It’s not just a phase. The Atlantic. 11-Apr-2022.
Haidt, Jonathan: Monomania Is Illiberal and Stupefying: Educational institutions have a duty to oppose monomania and to lead students out of its stultifying embrace. Persuasion. 01-Oct-2021.
Haidt, Jonathan; Lukianoff, Greg: The Polarization Spiral: How the right’s monomania and the left’s Great Awokening feed each other. Persuasion. 29-Oct-2021.
Haidt, Jonathan; Lukianoff, Greg: Why It’s a Bad Idea to Tell Students Words Are Violence: A claim increasingly heard on campus will make them more anxious and more willing to justify physical harm. The Atlantic. 18-Jul-2017.
Haidt, Jonathan; Rose-Stockwell, Tobias: The Dark Psychology of Social Networks: Why it feels like everything is going haywire. The Atlantic. 01-Dec-2019.
Haidt, Jonathan; Schmidt, Eric: AI is About to Make Social Media (Much) More Toxic: We must prepare now. The Atlantic. 02-Dec-2019.
Harper’s Magazine: A Letter on Justice and Open Debate. 07-Jul-2020.
Harris, Sam: The Bright Line between Good and Evil. Making Sense. 07-Nov-2023.
Harris, Tristan: Our Brains Are No Match for Our Technology. NY Times. 05-Dec-2019.
Harrison, Stephanie: Don’t say ‘How are you?’ Ask these 8 questions instead, says expert: ‘You’ll get a genuine response’ CNBC Make It. 14-Apr-2023.
Hirsi Ali, Ayaan: We Have Been Subverted: What is at stake in our ability to see the threat plainly? Nothing less than the preservation of our way of life. The Free Press. 04-Jun-2024.
Hogben, Isabel: I Had a Helicopter Mom. I Found Pornhub Anyway: Porn is not content. It’s a substance. And it must be controlled like one, argues 16-year-old Isabel Hogben. The Free Press. 29-Aug-2023.
Hughes, Coleman: Actually, Color-Blindness Isn’t Racist: Why have today’s most celebrated intellectuals ignored the historical record to recast it as a reactionary idea? The Free Press. 03-Dec-2019.
Johnson, Claire Hughes: I was VP at Google for 10 years. Here’s the No. 1 skill I looked for at job interviews—very few people had it. CNBC. 04-Dec-2019.
Kasparov, Garry: America’s Mission: The United States is deeply imperfect. But the country and the world will pay a steep price if we allow its flaws to blind us to its achievements and its potential. Persuasion. 23-Jul-2020.
Kissinger, Henry: How the Enlightenment Ends: Philosophically, intellectually — in every way—human society is unprepared for the rise of artificial intelligence. The Atlantic. 05-Dec-2019.
Krauthammer, Daniel: Charles Krauthammer championed civil debate. His example is needed now more than ever. Washington Post. 24-Oct-2019.
Kristof, Nicolas: How to Avoid a War With China. NY Times. 12-Apr-2023.
Lanier, Jaron: There Is No A.I.: There are ways of controlling the new technology—but first we have to stop mythologizing it. New Yorker. 20-Apr-2023.
Levin, Yuval: I was VP at Google for 10 years. Why Are We Still Governed by Baby Boomers and the Remarkably Old? NY Times. 06-Dec-2019.
Lukianoff, Greg; Schlott, Rikki: To stop cancel culture from killing society, we need to embrace free speech. NY Post. 08-Oct-2023.
Maddocks, Melvin: The Limitations of Language (1971): Semantic Aphasia TIME. 08-Mar-1971.
Malik, Chirag: 5 Terrible Habits That Are Seriously Destroying Your Mental Health & How To Break Them. Medium. 07-Nov-2022.
Mann, Doug: Campus Safari! A Typology of University Faculty: Which species have you spotted? Coddling of the American Mind. 30-May-2024.
McWhorter, John: I’m With Condoleezza Rice About White Guilt. NY Times. 29-Oct-2021.
Mead, Walter Russell: You Are Not Destined to Live in Quiet Times: Humanity’s third major technological revolution is leading us into a future more promising and also more dangerous than any since the dawn of history. It’s coming faster than you think. Tablet. 08-May-2023.
Mead, Walter Russell: Our Singular Century: How to connect the dots when they’re spinning out of control. Tablet. 27-Apr-2023.
Metz, Cade: How Could A.I. Destroy Humanity?: Researchers and industry leaders have warned that A.I. could pose an existential risk to humanity. But they’ve been light on the details. NY Times. 10-Jun-2023.
Meyer, Chris: Graham’s Hierarchy of Disagreement: How to Argue Like an Expert. The Mind Collection. 09-Oct-2023.
Moorehead, Bob: The Paradox Of Our Age / Time: The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints; we spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less. Patheos. 18-Jul-2014.
Mounk, Yascha: You’re Thinking About Polarization All Wrong: Membership in the blue and the red tribes is more fluid than it seems. Persuasion. 11-Mar-2024.
Mounk, Yascha: The Insidious Lie That We Can’t Understand Each Other: And a guide for how to productively push back against the identity trap. After Babel. 03-Oct-2023.
Oppong, Thomas: The Woes of Modern Life — 7 Toxic Effects: Existential anxiety. Medium. 22-Jun-2023.
Pew Report: Americans’ Dismal Views of the Nation’s Politics: 65% say they always or often feel exhausted when thinking about politics 19-Sep-2023.
Pinker, Steven: Reason To Believe: How and why irrationality takes hold, and what do to about it. Persuasion. 07-Dec-2019.
Porpiglia, Giana: America is in a Self-Compassion Crisis: Our obsession with self-improvement is doing more harm than good. Here’s what we should focus on instead. Medium. 21-Jul-2023.
Powell, Michael: D.E.I. Statements Stir Debate on College Campuses: Yoel Inbar, a psychology professor, thought he might be teaching at U.C.L.A., but his reservations about diversity statements got him in trouble. NY Times. 08-Sep-2023.
Rauch, Jonathan: Don’t Give Up on Truth. Persuasion. 21-Jun-2021.
Rauch, Jonathan: The Cancel Culture Checklist: Six signs that show you’re not just being criticized; you’re being canceled. Persuasion. 06-Aug-2020.
Rauch, Jonathan: The Constitution of Knowledge. National Affairs. 01-Sep-2018.
Reeves, Richard: J.S. Mill vs the Post-Liberals: Why recent attacks on the foundations of liberal thought miss the mark. Persuasion. 30-Aug-2023.
Rubin, Gretchen: High-School Commencement Address: Five Essential Paradoxes. 20-Jun-2023.
Sacks, Jonathan: An Unforgiving Age. Jonathan Sacks Legacy. 02-Oct-2019.
Schlott, Rikki; Haidt, Jon: Do you know where your kids go every day?: A Zoomer explains her generation’s malaise to older generations. After Babel. 06-Nov-2023.
Schlott, Rikki; Lukianoff, Greg: The Radicalization of the American Mind: And how social media crackdowns inadvertently help fuel it. Persuasion. 30-Oct-2023.
Shapiro, Ilya: Where Free Speech Ends and Lawbreaking Begins.: The First Amendment does not give carte blanche to intimidation and harassment. The Free Press. 27-Nov-2023.
Silberman Abella, Rosalie: In this mean-spirited moral free-for-all, we need to put justice back in charge. Washington Post. 14-Aug-2023.
Silverberg, Caleb: Why I Traded My Smartphone for an Ax: At 15, Caleb Silverberg made the most important decision of his life. He ditched technology and headed to the forest. The Free Press. 29-Aug-2023.
Stephens, Bret: The Dying Art of Disagreement. NY Times. 09-Dec-2019.
Stephens, Bret: Go Forth and Argue. NY Times. 08-Dec-2019.
Sullivan, Andrew: America’s New Religions: Political cults are increasingly filling the empty space in our lives left by the decline of organized faiths. New York Magazine. 11-Dec-2018.
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas: The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority. Incerto. 14-Aug-2016.
The University of Chicago: Free Expression. 11-Dec-2019.
The University of Chicago: Report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression. 10-Dec-2019.
TheOnion: World Death Rate Holding Steady At 100 Percent. 13-Dec-2019.
TheOnion: Father Engages Siri In Argument About WWII. 12-Dec-2019.
Thompson, Derek: The Four-Letter Code to Selling Just About Anything: What makes things cool? The Atlantic. 04-Jan-2017.
Trousdale, Andrew: The Price of Mass Amusement: Prescient warnings from Neil Postman about the tradeoffs we make with new technologies. After Babel. 25-Feb-2025.
Twenge, Jean: The pandemic was bad for teen mental health. The smartphone and social media were worse. Generation Tech. 09-Jan-2025.
Twenge, Jean: Gen Z confuses employers. Here are 7 key insights on recruiting, retaining, and managing them, based on research for my book ‘Generations’. Fortune. 13-Jun-2024.
Twenge, Jean: Yes, it’s the phones (and social media).: How every other explanation – from lack of independence to academic pressure to the pandemic – falls short. Generation Tech. 18-Oct-2023.
Twenge, Jean: Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?: More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis. The Atlantic. 03-Aug-2017.
Urban, Tim: Why Procrastinators Procrastinate. Wait But Why. 30-Oct-2013.
US Surgeon General: Social Media and Youth Mental Health: Evidence on the impacts of social media on the mental health of children and adolescents. US Dept of Health and Human Services. 23-May-2023.
Velarde, Luis: How addictive, endless scrolling is bad for your mental health: Here’s how social media, the focus of a surgeon general’s advisory in May, is affecting minds and contributing to a mental health crisis in young people Washington Post. 14-Jul-2023.
Verma, Pranshu: The rise of AI fake news is creating a ‘misinformation superspreader’: AI is making it easy for anyone to create propaganda outlets, producing content that can be hard to differentiate from real news. Washington Post. 17-Dec-2023.
Von Drehle, David: How to win people over in a polarized time? Follow Lincoln’s advice. Washington Post. 25-Oct-2022.
Wagmeister, Elizabeth: Do celebrities’ voices matter in elections? New Harvard study finds they do. CNN. 09-Aug-2024.
Warren, Ed: Rediscovering Our Shared American Values: What I learned on my journey through small-town America, the military, tech startups, and elite universities. Persuasion. 13-Feb-2023.
Warzel, Charlie; Caulfield, Mike: The Internet Is Worse Than a Brainwashing Machine: A rationale is always just a scroll or a click away. The Atlantic. 06-Jan-2025.
Weaver, Jesse: A Unified Theory of Everything Wrong with the Internet: Fake news, trolling, echo chambers, filter bubbles, cyberbullying, and tech addiction — what if it all came down to one thing? Medium. 17-Sep-2018.
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Weiss, John P.: The Overlooked Importance of Boredom in Our Lives: Boredom to the mind is like sleep to the body. JohnPWeiss. 21-Apr-2024.
Wignall, Nick: 7 Emotional Mistakes Even Very Smart People Make. Medium. 26-May-2023.
Williams, Pete: Your Addiction to Outrage is Ruining Your Life: The anger feels so good, but it’s insidious. The Bad Influence. 09-Aug-2020.
Winston, Tess: With some of my fellow Stanford Law students, there’s no room for argument. Washington Post. 14-Dec-2019.
Wong, Kristin: How to Argue on the Internet Without Losing Your Mind: Avoid the murky waters of trolldom. NY Times. 12-Dec-2019.
Zakaria, Fareed: The rest of the world doesn’t see China the same way we do. Washington Post. 09-Jun-2023.
Videos
Ariely, Dan; Cohen-Idov, Yoni: World Debate Champion: Convince Anyone — Have Persuasive Conversations
Bonhoeffer‘s Theory of Stupidity (Sprouts)
Brooks, David; McWhorter, John: Word Wars: Wokeism and the Battle Over Language (Aspen Institute)
Burgis, Luke: Social media addiction - how it changes your brain (Big Think)
Carnegie Endowment: What can be done about polarization in the United States?
Cipolla’s 5 Laws of Human Stupidity (Sprouts)
Dalio, Ray: Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
Druckrey, Inge: Teaching to See
Frankl, Viktor: Why Idealists Are Real Realists
Haidt, Jonathan: How Universities Foment Student Radicalism
Haidt, Jonathan: #EIE23: Smartphones vs. Smart Kids
Haidt, Jonathan: Why modern America creates fragile children (Big Think)
Haidt, Jonathan: How Social Media Drives Polarization
Harris, Tristan: The A.I. Dilemma
Harris, Tristan: How Your Brain Is Getting Hacked: Facebook, Tinder, Slot Machines (Big Think)
Inside Out and Inside Out 2 trailers
Jobs, Steve: 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
Khan Academy: Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism in-group and out-group
Lukianoff, Greg: FIRE: 5 ways college presidents can prove their commitment to free speech
PBS Idea Channel: The Ad Hominem Fallacy
Pinker, Steven: Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things (TheFP: Honestly)
Pinker, Steven: Why Do We Deny The Existence Of Human Nature?
Rose, Ted: America’s mass spiral of self-censorship | The Dilemma Ep. 1 (Big Think)
Sacks, Jonathan: The Great Partnership
Sacks, Jonathan: The Politics of Hope
Sacks, Jonathan: An Unforgiving Age
Schwarzenegger, Arnold: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Anti-Hate Message
Shapiro, Dan: Harvard negotiator explains how to argue (Big Think)
Simon, David: David Simon on Why He Created “The Wire”
Sorkin, Aaron: The American President — Andrew Shepherd’s speech
Sorkin, Aaron: The Newsroom — Will McAvoy’s speech
Simon, David: The Wire: But It’s the other way.
South Park: Captain Hindsight
Su, Amanda: From Substance to Shouting: the Demise of Political Debate in America
Pluto TV: Super Bowl ad 2024
Taleb, Nassim: 3 Cognitive Biases That are Making You Poor and Unhealthy + How To Overcome Them
Twerski, Abraham: On Anger
Veritasium: What Game Theory Reveals About Life, The Universe, and Everything
Wallace, David Foster: Your Mind is an Excellent Servant, but a Terrible Master (“This is Water”)
Wallace, David Foster: Unedited Interview (2003)
Watts, Alan: The Chinese Farmer Story (shài wēng shī mǎ 晒翁失马)
Audios
Bartlett, Steven: The Happiness Expert that Made 51 Million People Happier: Mo Gawdat (The Diary of a CEO)
Harris, Sam: The Bright Line Between Good and Evil (Making Sense)
Harris, Sam: The Sin of Moral Equivalence (Making Sense)
Harris, Tristan; Raskin, Aza: The AI Dilemma (Humane Tech)
Kawasaki, Guy: Carol Dweck: The Mother of the Growth Mindset Tells All (Remarkable People)
Mounk, Yascha; Patel, Eboo: What an Overly Pessimistic View of America Gets Wrong (Persuasion)
Mounk, Yascha; Pesca, Mike: How the Media Got Polarized (Persuasion)
Steyer, Jim; Odgers, Candice: Is Social Media Bad for Kids’ Mental Health? (Open to Debate)
Wallace, David Foster: This is Water
Weiss, Bari: The War on the West: a conversation with Douglas Murray (The Free Press)
Weiss, Bari: America Needs a Self-Help Book. Tim Urban’s Got One. (The Free Press)
TED Talks
Abrams, J.J.: The mystery box (2007)
Adichie, Chimamanda: The danger of a single story (2009)
Alter, Adam: Why our screens make us less happy (2017)
Antonsen, Roger: Math is the hidden secret to understanding the world (2015)
Ariely, Dan: What makes us feel good about our work? (2012)
Ariely, Dan: How to change your behavior for the better (2019)
Bolte Taylor, Jill: My stroke of insight (2008)
Boroditsky, Lera: How language shapes the way we think (2017)
Brody, Leonard: Our story: the greatest identity crisis in history (2017)
Brooks, David: The lies our culture tells us about what matters — and a better way to live (2019)
Cain, Susan: The power of introverts (2012)
Chappatte, Patrick: A free world needs satire (2019)
Conley, Chip: What baby boomers can learn from millenials at work — and vice versa (2018)
Cuddy, Amy: Your body language shapes who you are (2012)
Dahr, Julia: How to have constructive conversations (2021)
Dahr, Julia: How to disagree productively and find common ground (2018)
Dalio, Ray: How to build a company where the best ideas win (2017)
David, Susan: The gift and power of emotional courage (2018)
Ekström, Andreas: The moral bias behind your seach results (2015)
Ferriss, Tim: Why you should define your fears instead of your goals (2017)
Fisher, Helen: Why we love, why we cheat (2006)
Galante, Laura: How (and why) Russia hacked the US election (2017)
Galef, Julia: Why you think you’re right — even if you’re wrong (2016)
Galloway, Scott: How the US is destroying young people’s future (2024)
Galloway, Scott: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google manipulate our emotions (2017)
Genova, Lisa: What you can do to prevent Alzheimer’s (2017)
Gilbert, Dan: The surprising science of happiness (2004)
Gilbert, Elizabeth: Your elusive creative genius (2009)
Grant, Adam: What frogs in hot water can teach us about thinking again (2021)
Grant, Adam: The surprising habits of original thinkers (2016)
Griffiths, Tom: 3 ways to make better decisions — by thinking like a computer (2018)
Haidt, Jonathan: Can a divided America heal? (2016)
Haidt, Jonathan: How common threats can make common (political) ground (2012)
Haidt, Jonathan: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives (2008)
Harari, Yuval Noah: What explains the rise of humans? (2015)
Harris, Tristan: How a handful of technology brains control billions of minds every day (2017)
Hart, Betty: How compassion could save your strained relationships (2020)
Headlee, Celeste: 10 ways to have a better conversation (2015)
Heffernan, Margaret: The dangers of willful blindness (2013)
Heffernan, Margaret: Dare to disagree (2012)
Hone, Lucy: 3 secrets of resilient people (2020)
Honnold, Alex: How I climbed a 3,000-foot vertical cliff — without ropes (2018)
Jaouad, Suleika: What almost dying taught me about living (2019)
Jennings, Ken: Watson, Jeopordy and me, the obsolete know-it-all (2013)
Khan, Sal: How AI could save (not destroy) education (2023)
Khan, Sal: Let’s teach for mastery — not test scores (2015)
Kurzweill, Ray: Get ready for hybrid thinking (2014)
Lamott, Anne: 12 truths I learned from life and writing (2017)
Lanier, Jaron: How we need to remake the internet (2018)
Lesser, Elizabeth: Take ’the Other’ to Lunch (2010)
Lewinsky, Monica: The price of shame (2015)
Lipstadt, Deborah: Behinds the lies of Holocaust denial (2017)
Lynch, Michael Patrick: How to see past your own perspective and find truth (2017)
Lubetzsky, Daniel: Why the world needs more builders — and less “us vs. them” (2024)
Maher, Katherine: What Wikipedia teaches us about balancing truth and beliefs (2022)
Mann, Charles: How will we survive when the population hits 10 billion? (2018)
McGonigal, Kelly: How to make stress your friend (2013)
Niemann, Cristoph: You are fluent in this language (and don’t even know it) (2018)
Pearlman, Eva: How to lead a conversation between people who disagree (2019)
Phelps-Roper, Megan: I grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church. Here’s why I left (2017)
Pink, Dan: The puzzle of motivation (2009)
Pinker, Steven: Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers (2018)
Pinker, Steven; Newberger Goldstein, Rebecca: The long reach of reason (2012)
Reich, Werner: How the magic of kindness helped me survive the Holocaust (2020)
Richardson, Jesse: How to think, not what to think (2014)
Robinson, Ken: Do schools kill creativity? (2006)
Rosling Rönnlund, Anna: See how the rest of the world lives, organized by income (2017)
Rosling, Hans: The best stats you’ve ever seen (2006)
Rosling, Hans and Ola: How not to be ignorant about the world (2014)
Roy, Deb: The birth of a word (2011)
Sacks, Jonathan: How we can face the future without fear, together (2017)
Sapolsky, Robert: The biology of our best and worst selves (2017)
Schwartz, Barry: The paradox of choice (2005)
Schwartzberg, Louie: Hidden miracles of the natural world (2014)
Shankar, Maya: Why change is so scary — and how to unlock its potential (2023)
Shepherd, J. Marshall: 3 kinds of biases that shape your worldview (2018)
Shirky, Clay: Institutions vs. collaboration (2005)
Stevenson, Bryan: We need to talk about an injustice (2012)
Tüfekçi, Zeynip: We’re building a dystopic just to make people click on ads (2017)
Turere, Richard: My invention that made peace with lions (2013)
Urban, Tim: Inside the mind of a master procrastinator (2016)
Venkataraman, Bina: The power to think ahead in a reckless age (2019)
Waldinger, Robert: What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness (2015)
Walker, Matt: Sleep is your superpower (2019)
Weiss, Bari: Courage, the most important virtue (2024)
Zaki, Jamil: How to escape the cynicism trap (2021)
Zander, Benjamin: The transformative power of classical music (2008)