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The conservationists who are merely organized function as specialists who have lost sight of basic connections.

Wendell Berry • The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

One analysis of NHANES data demonstrated that high animal protein consumption led to increased mortality risk; another, using the same data, did not. Even meta-analyses are often unclear.

Asterisk Magazine Issue 02 Food

The foundational trade-off of the internet was to cast scarcity, consensus, and identity aside in favor of freedom and openness.

Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism

Allowing Homo economicus to do as he wants, to give Ayn Rand– style freedom to let the market reign, will, by Becker’s measurements, increase welfare.

Raj Patel • The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy

Ben-Nun Bloom indicates that popular measures of values and morality have a common genetic basis.

Oxford University Press • The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology (OXFORD HANDBOOKS SERIES)

I do believe that you can understand most of moral psychology by viewing it as a form of enlightened self-interest, and if it’s self-interest, then it’s easily explained by Darwinian natural selection working at the level of the individual. Genes are selfish,3 selfish genes create people with various mental modules, and some of these mental modules

Jonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

The three political lies: 1.From Hobbes, government is not about the common good or providing basic needs. It is about preserving property. 2.From Hobbes and Locke, economics is a moral-free math. Humanity’s equality need not translate to economic equity. 3.From Smith, justice is retributive—it is about punishing rule-breakers—not about making

Michael O. Emerson • The Religion of Whiteness

humans are really good at being Anywhere But Here.

Howard Jacobson • Sick to Fit: Three simple techniques that got me from 420 pounds to the cover of Runner’s World, Good Morning America, and the Today Show

“It will change your life,” the friend told him. “I don’t want my life to change,” he responded. “I like my life.”