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Mar 12, 2026
Consider two images, or visions, of the study of the liberal arts. One is of a bright young student looking intently at a beautifully burnished bookshelf. On the shelves are rows of...
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Mar 4, 2026
The key question posed by Fifty Shades of Grey, as sociologist Eva Illouz recognizes in her brilliant 2014 book on the topic, Hard-Core Romance: “Fifty Shades of...
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Feb 25, 2026
Risk 4. The Advice Fallacy: A veritable cognitive bias club sandwich
There’s a particular kind of cognitive and rhetorical failure that tends to occur when...
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Feb 17, 2026
Risk 2. Deference: The Feedback Vacuum Around Power
By the time highly successful people feel motivated to step out as public figures—writing books, giving interviews,...
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Feb 13, 2026
About halfway through Marc Maron’s recent interview with Barack Obama, the final episode in Maron’s extraordinary 16 year run as a podcaster, I realized I was...
Mar 12, 2026Consider two images, or visions, of the study of the liberal arts. One is of a bright young student looking intently at a beautifully burnished bookshelf. On the shelves are rows of...
Mar 4, 2026The key question posed by Fifty Shades of Grey, as sociologist Eva Illouz recognizes in her brilliant 2014 book on the topic, Hard-Core Romance: “Fifty Shades of...
Feb 25, 2026Risk 4. The Advice Fallacy: A veritable cognitive bias club sandwich There’s a particular kind of cognitive and rhetorical failure that tends to occur when...
Feb 13, 2026About halfway through Marc Maron’s recent interview with Barack Obama, the final episode in Maron’s extraordinary 16 year run as a podcaster, I realized I was...