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What Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and a Japanese monk teach us about happiness

The beauty you find in 2,500-year-old cliche.

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How we train ourselves to be unkind

The neuroscience of dehumanization.

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The sci-fi hypothesis that explains why you click with certain people

You may actually be on the same wavelength.

Oct 1 •

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Why do some people crave meaning and others don’t care?

Shrugging at the void.

Sep 26 •

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Would you rather be an absurdist or an existentialist? Here’s the difference between the two.

How to look cool in post-war France in black and white photos.

Sep 24 •

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Trump, Nero, and the trouble with historical comparisons

History never repeats itself.

Sep 19 •

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One of the most quoted lines in philosophy is completely misused and misunderstood

We don’t learn from history because we can’t learn from history.

Sep 17 •

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What survives every apocalypse?

Love in the year 2135.

Sep 12 •

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Ian McEwan: “Tourism is a wonderful spectacle of mass derangement.”

Here are three ways to do it better.

Sep 10 •

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