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Dec 29, 2017 — Robert Wright & Dan Harris
Dan’s new book,
Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics
The liberation of realizing you’re crazy (and so is everyone else)
Why Dan gave names to his inner voices
Dan’s 10% Happier meditation app
Dan: One minute of mindfulness meditation a day can be enough
Applying the Buddhist metaphor of the “second arrow” to everyday life
Meditating without losing your edge
Dec 26, 2017 — Robert Wright & Paul Bloom
Is “dehumanization” really the root of cruelty?
How love deludes us
Paul: Empathy makes us morally stupid
The weird psychology of the Trump era
What people get wrong about Harvey Weinstein and dehumanization
When is objectification morally acceptable?
Keeping our worst selves in check
Getting pleasure out of your own pain
Dec 24, 2017 — Robert Wright & Kieran Setiya
Midlife and coming to terms with who we aren’t
Is the midlife crisis different for men and women?
Kieran: Disappointment is a given for the mid-career academic
There’s more to life than minimizing suffering
Schopenhauer (and the Buddha): Dissatisfaction is inherent in desire
Bob suggests a familiar culprit: selfhood
Dec 19, 2017 — Robert Wright & Cullen Murphy
Cullen’s new book about the heyday of the funny pages,
Cartoon County
What it was like to grow up as the child of a cartoonist
Artists who were politically liberal and culturally conservative
An idyllic white world created for a quasi-idyllic time
No belly-buttons, no male nipples
How Cullen took over writing
Prince Valiant
—and how that shaped his subsequent writing
Dec 18, 2017 — Philip Menchaca & Joseph Baker
American paranormal culture, from dabblers to devotees
Speaking in tongues vs. alien visitations
The search for Bigfoot turns professional
Can you be both “normal” and “paranormal”?
Why ghost stories seem to “latch onto our brains”
The data behind the reissue of Joseph’s book,
Paranormal America
Dec 16, 2017 — Robert Wright & John Horgan
The pervasiveness of sexual harassment
Human nature according to Socrates, the Google memo guy, and Bob
Are gendered behavioral differences innate or learned?
John: Scientists keep trying, and failing, to discern the roots of human behavior
Can you be both enlightened—in the Buddhist sense—and immoral
Sexual harassment in science and philosophy
Dec 11, 2017 — Daniel Kaufman & Bryan Van Norden
Just how Euro-centric are American philosophy departments, anyway?
Is racism baked into Western philosophy?
A brief account of Western dalliances with Eastern thought
Why new movements in philosophy must kill their ancestors
Why do philosophy departments stay white? Subtle self-selection, Bryan says
Is philistinism killing philosophy as a discipline?
Dec 7, 2017 — Robert Wright & John Horgan
John continues to ruffle the feathers of scientists and philosophers
Concepts of consciousness, from pure materialism to panpsychism
John: The solipsism problem will keep the mind-body problem problematic
Daniel Dennett’s inordinate aversion to mystery
John gives us the plot spoiler about his book-in-progress
Bob thought he had Dan Dennett cornered. But then…
Are we in a simulation? Perish the thought, says John
Dec 5, 2017 — Noah Rasheta & Ellen Leanse
Ellen’s new book
The Happiness Hack
as an owner’s guide to the human brain
Distraction as a “dopamine hijack”
Conditioning the mind for happiness
The neurology behind self-inflicted emotional wounds
How to change happiness from “destination” to “journey”
Ellen’s tips for “hacking into” contentment and purpose
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