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In a post-truth world truth-seeking is more important than ever

Knowing is a moral act

Jason Baehr
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Truth is dead, and that's a good thing

The democratic dream of social media is still alive and kicking

Steve Fuller
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The internet is broken, here's how to fix it

The real internet revolution starts now

Maurizio Ferraris
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The psychedelic origins, and future, of Western thought

The psychedelic genealogy of morals

Ricky Williamson
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Cultural memory should not keep us stuck in the past

On the urge for public memorialization

Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
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Why the news can never be neutral, and what we can do about it

Pragmatism can solve journalism's truth problem

Nina Lyon
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The Santa Claus Lie

On the morally suspect task of lying about Santa.

James Mahon
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Zara Yaqob and The Rationality of the Human Heart

According to the Ethiopian philosopher, the heart is a cradle of wisdom, not irrationality

Teodros Kiros
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What Polyamory Teaches Us About Jealousy

Jealousy is probable and survivable.

Janet W. Hardy
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Kierkegaard's Existential Lover

Does death hold the key to true love?

Sharon Krishek
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Issue 63: Love and Death

Are the two intimately connected?

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Living On When Love Dies

Could lowering our expectations of romantic relationships enhance our experience of them?

Christopher Hamilton
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What students learn is more important than how

The key driver of progress often missed

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Overcoming hostile architecture

The buildings designed to hurt you

Karl Mendelson
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How to maintain your hope in humanity

I'm not angry at you humanity, I'm just disappointed

Ian James Kidd
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New Year's resolutions and the myth of self-control

Self-control is strategy, not willpower

Matthew C. Haug
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The hidden costs of collective attention

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After the death of the grand narrative

How to fill the void of the postmodern age

Matt McManus
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The fallibility of psychedelic insight

How psychedelics increase openness to reality

Henry Straughan
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How religion wrote the playbook for Big Tech

Studying religion from the outside in

Paul Seabright
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How self-help gets reality wrong

Reality and the self are perpetually incomplete

Christian Kumpost
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You are not one Self, you are many

Time is up for the unified Self

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Surviving the cult of climate doom

William Blake and the apostles of the apocalypse

Timothy Morton
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Why running makes you a better person

Plato's marathon to morality

Sabrina B. Little
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