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As humans, we all need to belong. While modern social life can make even the best of us feel gawky, for roughly one in five of us, navigating its…
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In 2016, the president-elect of the United States openly called for segregation and deportation based on race and religion. Meanwhile, inequalities in…
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In the 1970s, the United States had an incarceration rate comparable to those of other liberal democracies-and that rate had held steady for over 100…
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Rick Wartzman is director of the KH Moon Center for a Functioning Society at the Drucker Institute, a part of Claremont Graduate University. He also…
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Jared Diamond is a professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He began his scientific career in physiology and expanded into…
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Why is a course on ancient Chinese philosophers one of the most popular at Harvard? Because it challenges all our modern assumptions about what it takes…
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Veteran health journalist Mary Otto looks inside America’s mouth, revealing unsettling truths about our unequal society.Her new book, Teeth, takes readers…
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In What Love Is, philosopher Carrie Jenkins offers a bold new theory on the nature of romantic love that reconciles its humanistic and scientific…
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In his new book, Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior, Jonah Berger explores the subtle, secret influences that affect the decisions…
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Charlotte Brontë famously lived her entire life in an isolated parsonage on a remote English moor with a demanding father and siblings whose astonishing…