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Grit
Jul 25, 2023 · Angela Lee Duckworth
A UPenn social psychologist discovers the hidden factor that drives accomplishment and correlates strongly to satisfaction with life. This book explai...
Psychology Self-Help Society and Culture -
Pensées
Jul 12, 2023 · Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal was an inventor, mathematician, philosopher, and essayist in seventeenth-century France. In his short life, he catalogued his many pens&...
Philosophy Religion and Theology -
Admirable Evasions
Jul 7, 2023 · Theodore Dalrymple
A British physician and psychiatrist argues that psychology enables numerous opportunities to sidestep the moral life by insisting that human dysfunct...
Psychology Society and Culture -
The Prodigal Tongue
Jul 5, 2023 · Lynne Murphy
What happens when an American teaches linguistics at a British university? Controversy—that’s what. “It’s ‘lift’&m...
Current Affairs Society and Culture -
The Road to Character
Jun 30, 2023 · David Brooks
How do you enrich your inner life in a culture that cares far more about the externals? Columnist David Brooks marks out for us the forgotten road to ...
Current Affairs History Society and Culture -
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Jun 28, 2023 · Hannah Arendt
As a political philosopher and German Jew during the rise of Nazism, Hannah Arendt had a lot to say about totalitarianism and the elements that give r...
History Politics -
Killers of the Flower Moon
Jun 23, 2023 · David Grann
Across the plains of Osage, Oklahoma, small flowers begin to bloom in April. By May, however, larger plants spring up, overshadow, and choke out the s...
History Politics -
Quiet
Jun 16, 2023 · Susan Cain
One out of every three people you meet is an introvert, and these people are overlooked in a culture that favors extroversion. Quiet points to the hid...
Relationships and Parenting Psychology Society and Culture -
Discrimination and Disparities
Jun 13, 2023 · Thomas Sowell
Economist Thomas Sowell argues that single-factor explanations of disparities between individuals and groups (e.g., genetics, discrimination, or ...
Economics and Finance Politics Science and Technology -
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Jun 9, 2023 · Marie Kondo
Japanese tidiness consultant and Netflix star Marie Kondo walks us through her KonMari Method of cleaning, which aims at transforming homes and hearts...
Health and Wellness Self-Help
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