The Ruffian

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Songs From Emmylou

Rattle Bag and Wrap

The Struggle To Be Human

Rattle Bag

How To Be Good

Not Dark Yet

The Struggle With The Audience

The Mona Lisa Effect

FLASHPOINTS #9: Dysfunctional healthcare, toxic cultures, and how to talk to doctors

Reptile Wars

A Ruffian Sampler

Marginal Stupidity

Paul McCartney's freakish memory

FLASHPOINTS #8: What is 'free speech fundamentalism'?

Being the Queen

Creating, Thinking, Deciding

Activism isn't for everyone

Thinking vs Doing

How To Be Influenced

Wishful Seeing

Game Over

Down with pronouns

Paperback writer

Nine ways to read

We need to talk about Keir Starmer's voice

What's the point of patriotism?

Seven Varieties of Stupidity

FLASHPOINTS #6: When should decision-making be inhuman?

How Twitter made me smarter

FLASHPOINTS #5: Is this war NATO's fault?

Is social media to blame for everything?

FLASHPOINTS #4: Is there any such thing as an ethical immigration policy?

The man who would not take it anymore

Othering the West

FLASHPOINTS #3: How can we tell if a leader is irrational?

Is democracy smarter than autocracy?

Class Rules

Horizontal Hostility

Any Other Business

The Banality of Genius: Notes on Peter Jackson's Get Back

FLASHPOINTS #2: Is Crypto a Bubble Or Is It The Future?

The differences of minor narcissists

FLASHPOINTS #1: The Gender Gap In Mental Health

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