Admitting stupidity is the third rail of the American psyche. In addition, I have found that stupid actions tend to be based on rigid ideology or fear, both of which are hard to overcome.
Needed: Stupid Anonymous Read Journal Article
We can remind ourselves, and them: we already belong. Not to the algorithm, not to the audience, not to the machine—but to ourselves, to each other, to the earth, to whatever rhythm once made being human feel like enough.
The Golden Idol Machine Read Journal Article
If the purpose of Eddington is to bring some honesty to the table, I doubt it will work, despite the film’s astonishing brilliance. One can only hope that Eddington is the first of many more films along these lines.
Brilliant “Eddington” Plunges Viewers Right Back to 2020 Read Journal Article
Isn’t it time we stop enticing our young females into the workplace on the idea that is the prime space of growth before they’ve even been exposed to the ideas that have animated female purposefulness and joy throughout the ages?
Wage-and-Tax Slavery as Emancipation? Read Journal Article
The Kalfas study falls short. By relying on short-term, industry-funded data and ignoring the lived reality of withdrawal, it downplays a public health crisis hiding in plain sight. Starting an antidepressant is easy. But stopping can be the hardest part.
Antidepressant Withdrawal: Why Do Researchers Keep Downplaying It? Read Journal Article
The stand that Father Hughes took was striking, not just for its defiance, but because it was so rare. I ask myself why didn’t other priests, pastors, and ministers stand up against this tyranny like Father Hughes did.
The Priest Who Kept His Church Open Read Journal Article
I’m grateful every day for those two months. I’ll never forget them or regret them. Solitude leveraged with strategic self-developmental learning beats TikTok and social media addiction any time of day. I recommend it as the best Return On Investment.
The Return on Investment of Isolation Read Journal Article
Our prime task is the unglamorous—and for many in this culture that worships action for action’s sake—unsatisfying task of circling back to things like love, compassion, friendship, touch, and sincere dialogue that lie at the core of being human.
Ideological Firewalls Work Quite Well…Until They Don’t Read Journal Article
We are in the middle of what may be the biggest fertility crisis in the history of mankind. The governments of many European countries have the data that would unlock the mystery. Yet, it seems that no one wants to know.
Net Zero: The Mystery of the Falling Fertility Read Journal Article
I want to address a new strain of an existing challenge – emotional regulation. Imagine a 15-year-old boy and the challenges he has with impulse control. Now imagine a 13-year-old brain in that body. What would be the expected result?
The Kids Are Not Alright Read Journal Article
What has changed is that there has been a concerted psychological campaign to effectively insert abstract and often empirically questionable paradigms of sickness between individual citizens and their understanding of their own bodies.
We’ve Let Them Get Deep Inside Our Heads and Our Communal Lives Read Journal Article
The person most associated with civil disobedience is Mahatma Gandhi. In effect, he instrumentalised, operationalised, and weaponised Thoreau’s concept of civil disobedience (1849), turning it into an effective technique for peaceful mass mobilisation against a powerful opponent to win independence.
“Jail Bharo!”—Channelling Our Inner Gandhi Read Journal Article
