Are We Trading Our Happiness for Modern Comforts?
As society gets richer, people chase the wrong things.
The Atlantic
Topics: Happiness Meaning Progress Purpose
The Rise and Rise of Creativity
Once seen as the work of genius, how did creativity become an engine of economic growth and a corporate imperative?
Aeon
Topics: Creativity Genius Progress
Visions of a Better World
Noam Chomsky, Richard Dawkins, Martin Rees, and others answer the question: What’s your utopia?
Cross-Check, Scientific American
Topics: Progress
How to Do Good Better
The case for effective altruism, according to one of its founders.
Future Perfect, Vox
Topics: Altruism Ethics Morality Progress Values
Steven Pinker Thinks the Future Is Looking Bright
The Harvard psychologist says he is no starry-eyed optimist. It’s just that the data don’t lie.
The New York Times
Topics: Flourishing Progress Rationality
Steven Pinker Interview
Steven Pinker is the author of, most recently, Enlightenment Now.
The Panpsycast
Are These Dots Purple or Blue? Your Answer Might Not Be As Reliable As You Think
When blue dots or threatening faces become rare, people’s concepts of “blue” or “threat” expand.
Science
Topics: Ethics Progress
Questioning Truth, Reality and the Role of Science
In an era when untestable ideas such as the multiverse hold sway, Michela Massimi defends science from those who think it hopelessly unmoored from physical reality.
Quanta Magazine
Topics: Progress Reality
What Are the Most Important Moral Problems of Our Time?
Will MacAskill is a co-founder of the effective altruism movement, a philosophy that tries to answer the question: How can we do as much good as possible?
TED
Topics: Altruism Ethics Morality Progress
The Rise and Fall of Cognitive Control
Reasoning, problem-solving, symbolic language, planning — these faculties are fundamental to virtually all of our individual and societal accomplishments.
Behavioral Scientist
Topics: Cognition Progress
Optimism Is the Engine That Moves Society Forward
Skepticism has a place, but it's optimists who decide the future, says Kevin Kelly.
Big Think
Topics: Optimism Progress
Giving ‘Good’ a Rigorous Inspection
Joshua Greene, Steven Pinker, and Peter Singer trade ideas on how to be moral — and happy.
The Harvard Gazette
Topics: Cooperation Ethics Happiness Joshua Greene Morality Progress Values
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