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Being Human Is Cool Again
As AI saturates everyday life, people are seeking refuge in flesh-and-blood alternatives—from bookstore signings to vinyl record sales.
Ted Gioia
Arthur Brooks: Stress Makes Life Meaningful
Many of life’s happiest milestones rank among its most stressful.
Arthur Brooks
How Free Is ‘The Last Free Place in America’?
In a remote California commune, ‘freedom’ isn’t what it seems.
Jack Burke
Mob Rule Comes for My Yoga Studio
The CorePower I used to love has been ruined by shouted ideology and shunning, just like nearly every public space in my longtime home of Minneapolis…
Ann Bauer
Arthur Brooks: Can We All Relax About Bad Bunny’s Spanish Halftime Show?
A willingness to not entirely understand, and to not be entirely understood, is essential for an enriching life.
Arthur Brooks
Things Worth Remembering: Friction Makes Life Worth Living
Technology promises to alleviate every inconvenience. But as Kurt Vonnegut said in 1995, aren’t the annoyances we’re racing to erase the very things…
Josh Kaplan
Arthur Brooks: Suffer Like a Marine
Either you can try—fruitlessly, as long as you are in this mortal coil—to eliminate pain, or you can lower your resistance to pain when it inevitably…
Arthur Brooks
Arthur Brooks: Get Off Your Parents’ Phone Plan
An excessively dependent relationship between parents and their adult children breeds coldness and mutual resentment, if not outright schism.
Arthur Brooks
Arthur Brooks: Popularity Won’t Make You Happy
There’s a misconception that if you’re beloved by millions, you’re doing something right.
Arthur Brooks
America’s Vanishing Church
Mainline Protestantism tried to reject the extremes of evangelical Christianity while also resisting the pull toward nonreligion. In doing so, it…
Ryan P. Burge
Get Real Friends, Not Mom Cliques
Ashley Tisdale’s breakup with her famous mom group struck a nerve. But the real problem is that grown women are still forming cliques at all.
Dana Schuster
Arthur Brooks: Five Steps to a Happy Life
Make a routine. Get physical. Get metaphysical. Live with your grandchildren. And stop going to work dinners.
Arthur Brooks
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