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Realistic Optimists and That David Brooks Column

By chris | Published: 10 November 2009
Tyler Cowen has a great TEDxMidAtlantic talk on the seductive power of stories to distort our view of the world. We compulsive structure our understanding with narratives–there is no point in fighting this–but we can take a light, sceptical approach to these narratives, continually probing them for weaknesses. (Does anyone else see common thread with [...]
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Seeing More Red

By chris | Published: 12 September 2009
Reading Charles Blow’s column today, I couldn’t help thinking that he seems to want Obama to get angry, well, without wishing to put too fine a point on it, because Mr Blow is frustrated, just as Chris de Burgh was frustrated before him.  As frustrating as the situation is, I can’t see how acting out [...]
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