Brain Food - Books are Food for your Brain
Sharon CortelyouWriting that analyzes non-fiction books touching on topics that range from politics, culture, history, and psychology. Along with summaries, the writing includes essays that help make sense of the overwhelming information in our world.
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How Voluntary Servitude
Last month in this series, we took a look at the writing from La Boétie who lived in the 1500s. He asks the question, “Why do people consent to their own domination?” His core claim is simple and radical in a philosophical, not revolutionar...
More about War
This is the second month of our new series, Big Picture Narratives. Last month, we looked at Ian Morris’s central claim in War. Over the long arc of history, violent deaths fell and prosperity rose because war forced humans into larger, mor...
The Republic Grows
This is the second month of our new series focusing on US history. Let’s continue on with Jill Lepore’s book, “These Truths.” And the deep truth about colonial America is that the same society that celebrated political dissent among free wh...
Happiness at the Personal Level
This week we turn to the more personal side of happiness in Jonathan Haidt’s book, “The Happiness Hypothesis.” The Stoics and Buddhists were right that happiness comes from within, but Haidt argues that it also comes from without. We need m...
Voluntary Servitude
This is now the 4th week of April and hopefully each post kicking off our new series have been easy to follow. The first week, we looked at human psychology, the second week we delved into early American History with Jill Lepore, the third...
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