When Albert Camus’ novel The Plague is trending online, you know you [we] are in deep trouble. It is. We are. Published in 1947 and awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1957, Camus’ The Plague is surprisingly relevant to… Read More ›
narrative history
Narrative versus Neuroscientism
Review: Alex Rosenberg’s How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories(The MIT Press, 289 pp., $27.95US). Henry Ford said: “History is bunk.” The privileged, the victors, those with an ax to grind, and those with the… Read More ›
Empathy Lessons 