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Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

Once people began revealing their sexual orientation to friends and family, the floodgates started to open, perhaps especially when their family members were politicians who were members of a party opposed to this change.
Richard H. Thaler • Nudge: The Final Edition
“Deeper satisfaction comes not from feeling good, he taught, but from doing good: from cultivating and maintaining virtuous habits that balance one’s own life and create and deepen ties with others.”
Jonathan Rauch • The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50
Racial-group behavior is a figment of the racist’s imagination. Individual behaviors can shape the success of individuals. But policies determine the success of groups.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
Overnight I had gone from monster to cliché.
Jonathan Rauch • Denial: My 25 Years Without a Soul (Kindle Single)
The logic of apartheid is difficult to follow, for it seems from our vantage point a strange kind of illogic. Liberal multiculturalism takes for granted that the route to racial harmony is mutual understanding, and the route to understanding is contact, exposure, conversation. So our modern studies show that those who know actual black people, or g
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