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World Edition - The Atlantic
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Remembering Daniel Kahneman: A Mosaic of Memories and Lessons - By Evan Nesterak - Behavioral Scientist
Evan Nesterakbehavioralscientist.org
The necessity of morally engaged politics to counter extremism and how to respond to toxic polarization without de-escalating.
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But that's what's happened. That's why we have the dangerous mix of fundamentalism and hyper-nationalism that we see today.
It's because we need a morally more engaged way of contending with our disagreements and a morally more explicit way of deliberating as citizens about what it is we share and what the implications of that
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Thomas Sowell
en.wikipedia.org • Thomas Sowell - Wikipedia
“Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free,” Tocqueville wrote, “but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.” To acquire the art of self-government, he believed, citizens have to be together. They have to come out of the isolation of their individualism and experience government at a level local enough that it brings them
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Daniel C. Dennett, Widely Read and Fiercely Debated Philosopher, Dies at 82
Jonathan Kandellnytimes.com
A stunning essay in the FT on the international decline in the ability to read, reason, focus, and learn new things.
It began or accelerated in the early 2010s.
It's hitting teens AND adults.
Self-report and objective scores.
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