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What If Smartphones Aren’t Killing Romance, but Saving It?

by Chelsea Follett My husband and I met in the same academic building where my parents first met decades earlier as students. When we recently returned to that spot around our 10th wedding
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How Pessimism Puts Progress at Risk

by Peter Goettler It was not in his celebrated oath but rather in Of the Epidemics that Hippocrates wrote: “As to diseases, make a habit of two things—to help, or at least to do no harm.” That

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Solving the Conundrum of Status Competition

by Marian L. Tupy The Democratic Socialists of America are having a moment. The group’s membership passed 120,000 members in July, overtaking the Eugene Debs-era Socialist Party of the early 20ᵗʰ
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The Overpopulation Panic Dates Back to Odysseus’s Time

by Chelsea Follett The Odyssey is giving today’s moviegoing audiences a glimpse into the myths of the distant past, but one of the most surprising ideas in the Homeric tradition feels decidedly

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From Stone Tablets to Solid-State Drives

by J.K. Lundblad The astonishing conveniences and prosperity of modern civilization rest on two pillars: our mastery of energy and our relentless discovery of knowledge. Yet, discovering new

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Should We Accept Degrowth as a Serious Academic Concept?

by Mark Koyama In recent years, an intellectual movement known as “degrowth” has grown in popularity through the efforts of a small but growing group of academics and activists. Key texts that

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Dr. Steve Davies Joins the Human Progress Advisory Board

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Steve Davies has joined the Human Progress Advisory Board. Davies has spent over four decades researching, writing, and teaching economic history, with a specific
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Autonomous Vehicles as the Next General-Purpose Technology

By Nathan Smith In 1939, five million people queued at New York’s World’s Fair to ride Futurama, General Motors’ model of America in 1960. Among the marvels were highways and mountain roads where

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First-World Problems Were Once an Emperor’s Problems

by Adam Omary “In the morning when thou risest unwillingly,” Marcus Aurelius instructed himself, remember that “I am rising to the work of a human being.” The most powerful man in the world did not

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The Young Are Betrayed by the Politics of Doom

by Mark Brolin Adults tell them that democracy is dying, capitalism is exploitation, technology is dehumanizing, climate change is collapse, Russia is at the door, and the next generation will be

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Why Humans Care More About Rank Than Riches

by Adam Omary This summer Elon Musk became the first trillionaire in history. Supporters celebrated the trillions in market value and the thousands of jobs he helped create pioneering electric cars

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Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity

by Chelsea Follett A brutal heat wave in Europe has caused a surge in deaths across the continent as temperatures topped 100 degrees in recent weeks. In France, authorities reported at least 2,000

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