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Social Inequality
By better understanding how the brain constructs pain, we may transform how we treat chronic suffering.
4mins
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.
1hr 37mins
“A lot of the trends in the economy, in family life have just been much harder for working class men.”
Agentic AI pioneer Chetan Dube considers ways that everyone can be lifted by the tide of AI, not just those with the capital to leverage it.
Whether we should tear down philosophy’s Berlin Wall and let East and West finally merge depends entirely on what we think philosophy is—and what it’s for.
In 2021, residents of the top America could expect to live 20.4 years longer than residents of the bottom America.
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Algorithms dictate a lot more than your social media feeds. Here’s how to win back your agency.
And, more importantly, what’s being done to get them online?
Each year, over half a million migrants cross the deadly jungle separating Colombia from Panama in search of a better life in the United States.
"Values emphasizing tolerance and self-expression have diverged most sharply, especially between high-income Western countries and the rest of the world."
6mins
Why most billionaires aren’t geniuses and most geniuses aren’t billionaires, explained by political scientist Brian Klaas.
There are many problems with relying on SAT and ACT scores for college admissions. But removing them entirely creates less opportunity.
37mins
Coleman Hughes advocates for a colorblind America, presenting compelling arguments in favor of treating all individuals without regard to race.
The U.S. ranked 59th worldwide.
Lockdowns moved the burden of COVID from the at-risk elderly to the less-at-risk young. Does this sacrifice merit compensation?
Acclaimed psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, author of “The Body Keeps The Score,” discusses the widespread existence of trauma and how it settles in our bodies.
"Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, and Knox the man who buys the beef." Read the story of 19th-century Scotland's corpse dealers.
Only nine weeks later, the Wright Brothers achieved manned flight. The pathologically cynical always will find a reason to complain.
"When Harry Met Sally" lied to you.
Simple "nudges" to remind people to show up for court could help keep thousands out of jail.
Is true equality achievable — or even desirable? Go on a journey through the strange and unsettling "Land of Justice."
John Templeton Foundation
Ideal models of family life have been broken by societal, technological, and cultural shifts — and we need to rethink our options.
In an age of high quit rates, struggling low-wage employees, and tone-deaf leadership, the call for “good jobs” makes great sense.
1hr 25mins
Richard Reeves explains the big problems facing men today — and why no one is talking about them.
As a physician, John Pringle helped reinvent hygiene; as a husband, he destroyed a woman’s life with his abuse.
Worldwide, 15% of children are born out of wedlock, but the figure varies from less than 1% in places like China to 69% in Iceland.
A study out of Sweden shows that the highest earning men are slightly less intelligent than those just below them on the economic ladder.
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Male inequality — the enormous cultural shift happening right under our nose.
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Climate change. War. Civil unrest. Is it responsible to have kids today?