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The Pleasures of Suffering and the Meaning of Life (Paul Bloom)
Psychosomatic Disorders and Other Mystery Illnesses (Suzanne O’Sullivan)
Understanding Consciousness with Antonio Damasio
Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness (Charles Foster on Being a Human)
In-Person Convo with Steven Pinker on Rationality: What it is, Why it Seems Scarce, Why it Matters
The Afghanistan Papers: Why the War Was a Failure (With Craig Whitlock)
Debunking the 1619 Project with Mary Grabar
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality (Kathryn Paige Harden)
Mary Eberstadt on God, Religion, Secularization, Sexual Revolution, and Identity Politics
Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault From Within on Modern Democracy (Tom Nichols)
How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything (Mike Rothschild)
Science Denial: Why It Happens & What to Do About It (Gale Sinatra & Barbara Hofer)
How the New York Times’s Misreporting, Distortions & Fabrications Radically Alter History
Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to 21st Century—Heying & Weinstein on Evolution + Challenges of Modern Life
Doing More With Less—Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less (Leidy Klotz)
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