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When Political Debate Becomes a Spectacle of Personal Attacks
A reflection on electoral debates, accusations, voters, and the incentives that turn political confrontation into a spectacle.
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Some questions become more interesting when the first answer is not enough.
Articles and essays that move across perspectives, challenge interpretations, and explore what a first reading may miss.
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Everyone Is Reacting
Action, reaction, deterrence, and algorithms: an inquiry into what happens before the button.
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Does the world change, or does the way we see it?
Five polite robbers, an absurd dream, and the many ways we interpret reality.
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The Tent Has Rules Now
How living together, concessions, and expectations transform spaces and relationships.
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Can Talking with Artificial Intelligence Make You Smarter?
How conversation with AI can exercise the capacities involved in learning—and how the same tool can help us avoid that exercise.
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Why Do Highly Intelligent People Disagree?
Einstein and Bohr, Plato and Aristotle, Freud and Jung: a reflection on intelligence, perspectives, and the value of disagreement.
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Vorcaro’s Party: A Different Kind of Investigation
From 120 women at a party in São Paulo to trillion-dollar funds, by way of public officials, bankers, and that job opening your friend heard about before you did.
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The Firefly, Me, and Change
On businesses that close, lives that start over, species that disappear, and our strange difficulty accepting that everything changes.
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Here We Go Again... Will the World End in 2036?
Between panic and recklessness lies an old, labor-intensive activity that rarely goes viral: thinking.
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When Convincing Becomes More Important Than Understanding
A reflection on lucidity, identity, persuasion, and cognitive cooperation in contemporary communication.
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