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How Groups Lose Touch With Reality
Why moral certainty, social insulation, and online illusion separate institutions from the people they claim to represent
Dec 19
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When Institutions Confuse Morality With Truth
The Danger of Treating Morality as Knowledge
Dec 17
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Against Illliberalism: Free Book Download
A critique of illiberal trends in liberal institutions, with a focus on Unitarian Universalism
Dec 15
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The Human Tendency of Turning Beliefs into "Moral Truths"
An evolved tendency that closes minds and damages movements
Dec 8
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November 2025
Revisiting Campbell and Manning’s "The Rise of Victimhood Culture"
Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
Nov 29
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The Psychology of Nonconformists, Misfits, and Deviants
Mental, personality, and environmental factors contribute
Nov 27
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How Cultures Hack the Mind
Ancient Tools in a Modern World
Nov 24
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Good ideas can come from bad people
Many great thinkers, artists and scientists had bad sides
Nov 23
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Placebo Aesthetics
When the story changes the experience
Nov 20
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Hans van Meegeren: master art forger
Forger of Vermeer and others
Nov 19
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Understanding Soft Bullying in Organizations and Communities
Understanding Subtle Social Coercion
Nov 17
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How organizations need—and struggle with— contrarians
A love-hate relationship
Nov 16
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