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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: 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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Arthur Brooks: Why Your Neighbor Became a Conspiracy Theorist. And Maybe You, Too.
Millions of Americans aren’t just misinformed. They’re searching for coherence in a world that no longer provides it.
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Arthur Brooks: Why Your ‘Perfect’ Life Feels So Empty
I’ve spent most of my career around some of the most accomplished young people in the world. What I’ve found is that they are undeniably, desperately…
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Arthur Brooks: Face It. You’re Addicted to Politics.
Consuming political outrage all day doesn’t strengthen democracy. It just wrecks your mood.
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Arthur Brooks: I Live with My Grandchildren. You Should Too.
It’s noisy, crowded, occasionally chaotic, and far happier than the lonely alternative many families accept.
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Arthur Brooks: It’s 2028. AI Has Made You Much Happier.
The viral Citrini memo warned that artificial intelligence would crash the economy. But what if it does the opposite, freeing us from drudgery and…
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