Tag: psychology

• Do Better Better #7: The New Externalities

  June 13, 2021

  Questions might include — what’s changed over the past decade, and why? What about over the past year? Who are the industry leaders by revenue, profit, and growth? Are they… more ›

• The Tyranny Of Time

  June 13, 2021

  On a damp and cloudy afternoon on February 15, 1894, a man walked through Greenwich Park in East London. His name was Martial Bourdin — French, 26 years of age,… more ›

• William Davies, The Politics of Recognition in the Age of Social Media, NLR 128, March–April 2021

  May 16, 2021

  In the decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, critical theorists paid renewed attention to what Charles Taylor famously called ‘the politics of recognition’. https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii128/articles/william-davies-the-politics-of-recognition-in-the-age-of-social-media more ›

• The New-Style Pop Histories Making Socialism Cool Again

  January 2, 2021

  This article is the first in a three-part series on the ways online historians and writers are shaping the worldviews and mindsets of young Chinese. Who is the greatest figure… more ›

• The Clash of Capitalisms

  November 22, 2020

  Capitalism rules the world. With only the most minor exceptions, the entire globe now organizes economic production the same way: labor is voluntary, capital is mostly in private hands, and… more ›

• Far right seizing COVID-19 ‘opportunity’ to expand: Study

  November 20, 2020

  Far-right individuals in Europe and the United States are increasingly forming global links and using the coronavirus pandemic to attract anti-vaccine activists and conspiracy theorists to their cause, a study commissioned by… more ›

• The rise and rise of creativity

  October 17, 2020

  Creativity doesn’t have a deep history. The Oxford English Dictionary records just a single usage of the word in the 17th century, and it’s religious: ‘In Creation, we have God and… more ›

• [Report] Trumpism After Trump, by Thomas Meaney : Harper’s Magazine

  August 9, 2020

  day one The course of true nationalism never did run smooth.—Ernest Gellner The city was not beautiful; no one made that claim for it. At the height of summer, people… more ›

• Invisible Manipulators of Your Mind

  August 9, 2020

  We are living in an age in which the behavioral sciences have become inescapable. The findings of social psychology and behavioral economics are being employed to determine the news we read,… more ›

• Ask a Sane Person: Jia Tolentino on Practicing the Discipline of Hope

  July 15, 2020

  For the past decade, Jia Tolentino has been writing feverishly on the front lines of cultural warzones. https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/ask-a-sane-person-jia-tolentino-book-2020-hope more ›