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What Are We Really Fighting Over? Understanding Outrage Through Moral Psychology

How to Start a New Country

How Top Investors Win in Markets

Can Charities Significantly Impact Issues Like Poverty and Health?

The Science of Suggestion: Who Can You Trust?

Rationality, Science Fiction, and UFOs

The Truth About Wealth Inequality: Better or Worse Than We Think?

Opus Dei: From Vatican Secrets to Washington Influence

The Current State of Atheism and Separation of Church and State

Paul Ehrlich on The Population Bomb, Climate Change, and the Ethics of Extinction

From the Big Bang to God: The Universe’s Biggest Mysteries

Inventing God: Psychology of Belief and the Rise of Secular Spirituality

2024 Election Postmortem

Fentanyl and the Opioid Epidemic

A Conversation with America’s Most Well-Known Abortion Doctor
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