Free your mind
Review of Elastic by Leonard Mlodinow in the FT.
ReadTag: Reason & rationality
Call that a sport?
Why scores for interpretation have a place in sport
ReadThe Illuminati: maybe not such a mad idea
When we dig for the truth, we flirt with madness. But in a world where hidden power is all too real, it’s the only sane thing to do.
ReadThe power of second thoughts
How habits of thinking can challenge unthinking habits.
ReadNever Had It So Good
By the time you read this, something truly dreadful might have blighted the world. Pinker does not prophesy that this won’t happen; he simply reminds us why it should not and need not, as long as we don’t give up the notion of the emancipatory power of reason to help illuminate the way forward. If that is naive, even more naive is the belief that despair, fatalism or superstition supplies a credible alternative.
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