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March 21, 2026
Mimicking Authenticity Has Never Been So Easy
A college admissions expert recently wrote a piece for Business Insider telling parents their teenagers are taking too many AP classes. His advice: drop the scariest advanced…
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March 21, 2026
What AI Might Be Teaching Us About Intelligence
Watch people talk. Not what they say, but the act itself. At a party, in a meeting, at school pickup, wherever. Consider what's actually being communicated. Most of the time, the…
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March 15, 2026
The Tide of Human Affairs: Why Some Narratives Endure
The Most Contested Story We Tell Of all the narratives a culture constructs to give meaning and order to human life, none may be more consequential than the story it tells about…
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March 9, 2026
Why History Repeats: The Fourth Turning, the Evolved Mind, and Psychohistory
An Essay on Generational Cycles, Evolutionary Psychology, and the Predictability of Human Affairs The Pattern Without a Cause In 1997, William Strauss and Neil Howe published The…
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March 8, 2026
The Cassandra Paradox: Evolutionary Psychology, Plato’s Cave, and the Cost of Seeing Clearly
An Essay on Awareness, Isolation, and the Noble Burden of Truth The Seeress and the Slave In the mythological traditions of ancient Greece, Cassandra was a princess of Troy who…
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November 9, 2025
The Unbalanced Scale: Empathy, Systems, and the Modern Western Dilemma
Introduction: A Tale of Two Brains At the heart of any enduring civilization lies a set of stories it tells itself—myths, traditions, and social contracts that organize human…
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October 13, 2025
Conspiracy Reality
The Strange Case of Selective Skepticism We live in a curious intellectual moment. The same people who pride themselves on scientific thinking will dismiss pattern recognition…
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October 12, 2025
The Evolutionary Rewards of Complicity: Why We Go Along with Bad Things
The Universal Puzzle One of the most perplexing aspects of human behavior is how ordinary people consistently participate in systems that would seem to be objectively harmful. From…
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October 11, 2025
Thinking About Thinking in the Age of AI
The Inevitability of Algorithmic Capture The rise of Artificial Intelligence, especially Large Language Models (LLMs), will likely be the culmination of a long line of human…
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October 1, 2025
Source Code of Humanity
How Understanding Cultural Evolution Reveals Why Artificial Intelligence Represents the Ultimate Exploitation Technology A Revolutionary Idea All human culture is an adaptation to,…
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September 18, 2025
The Future of Therapy: How AI Could Transform Mental Health Care
In a world where technology is reshaping every facet of our lives, it was only a matter of time before artificial intelligence turned its attention to one of the most human…
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