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The Pursuit of Happiness with Arthur Brooks
What is happiness? And why is it so hard to achieve? Arthur Brooks guides readers towards the good life.
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Arthur Brooks: Gen Z’s Great Retreat from Risk
Teen drinking has plummeted. So have dating, marriage, childbearing, and other leaps into adulthood. What looks like prudence may signal a dangerous…
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Arthur Brooks: The Knicks Just Made the Case for Sports Fandom
New Yorkers poured into the streets after the Knicks’ title run, embracing strangers in shared joy. Social science suggests that instinct is good for…
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Arthur Brooks: Why Cheaters Make Bad Politicians
Allegations surrounding politicians like Graham Platner raise a question: Does sexual misconduct predict how candidates will behave in office…
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Arthur Brooks: The Pope’s Guide to the AI Revolution
For all the panic surrounding AI, Pope Leo offers a coherent philosophy for how individuals, leaders, and societies should actually live with it.
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Arthur Brooks: How to Give a Commencement Speech That Isn’t Awful
Most graduation speeches are either bland, preachy, or instantly forgotten. Here are four rules for giving one graduates might actually remember.
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Arthur Brooks: The Saddest Countries All Speak English
The English-speaking world doesn’t use social media more than the rest of the world—but it uses it differently, in ways that may be fueling isolation…
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Arthur Brooks: Inside the Mind of an Internet Troll
Why do comment sections on news stories—and even on essays about love and happiness—so quickly become toxic dumps of vitriol?
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Arthur Brooks: Dating Apps Aren’t Broken. You’re Just Using Them Wrong.
Like it or not, dating apps are the dominant way young people express interest in each other. So rather than trying to turn back the clock, I’ve been…
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Arthur Brooks: Universities Have a Conformity Crisis
I’ve spent almost my entire career in academia. The problem isn’t wokeism—it’s the pressure to conform.
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Arthur Brooks: What’s a Good Catholic to Do?
After President Trump blasted the pope as ‘weak’ and slashed aid to Catholic Charities, many Catholics feel pushed to pick a side. They shouldn’t.
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Arthur Brooks: Grade Inflation Won’t Make You Happy
At Harvard, inflated grades mirror easy-money economics: The more you hand out, the less they’re worth.
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Arthur Brooks: Don’t Waste Your Suffering
The modern fixation on a suffering-free life has left us fragile, anxious, and unfulfilled.
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