jonathan gottschall @jonathangottsch
Distinguished Fellow at Washington & Jefferson College. Author of The Storytelling Animal, The Professor in the Cage, and The Story Paradox jonathangottschall.com Washington, PA Joined October 2013-
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Looking forward to reading Adam Szetela's brave investigation of stifling ideological conformity and censorship in mainstream publishing. Long overdue. amazon.com/That-Book-Dang…
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My 2025 TED talk: The hidden logic of human harmony (Steven Pinker | TED2025) go.ted.com/gxxUz via @TEDTalks
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Available for preorder: My new book, "When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life" a.co/d/dgDk3Ix #Amazon via @amazon
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I just turned in the page proofs of my next book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life. Likely US pub date: Sept 23 (possibly earlier). Jacket image is a draft.
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I recommend @jonathangottsch’s book The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human in every @businessofstory mastery course I provide businessofstory.com/podcast/busine…. Now I’m enjoying his 2021 book, The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies And Tears Them Down.
This article by @brianklaas on MAGA conspiracy theories is the best succinct encapsulation of the psychology of conspiracism I can remember reading. theatlantic.com/international/…
Great overview of FLUKE by @brianklaas podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eco…
my jacket blurb for @brianklaas's fast read FLUKE: "Fluke is the intellectual equivalent of a slap across the face.... Klaas’s beautifully written application of chaos theory to human experience won’t just shift your paradigm, it’ll detonate it." theatlantic.com/international/…
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Steven Pinker's five-point plan to save Harvard from itself (now out from behind the paywall). bostonglobe.com/2023/12/11/opi… via @BostonGlobe
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What can Inuit childrearing practices teach us about censoring books in schools? My latest in Skeptic. skeptic.com/reading_room/k…
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“There’s Nothing Mystical About the Idea that Ideas Change History.” Long-form interview on war, ideas as causes, AI, effective altruism, global institutions, Chomsky, Fukuyama, & ennui at the end of history. quillette.com/2023/12/01/the…
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My first thoughts on AI alignment, in the @NewYorker. newyorker.com/science/annals…
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Excited to be in conversation with the brilliant @nytdavidbrooks on Monday, talking about his fantastic new book How to Know a Person, on behalf of the @howtoacademy Tickets start from just a tenner 19:30pm Available here: howtoacademy.com/events/david-b…
Congrats Dennis!! A plumb pub. Looking forward to reading.
Congrats Dennis!! A plumb pub. Looking forward to reading.
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"From cradle to grave, we are works in progress." - The Brain: The Story of You. amazon.com/gp/product/110…
Yet more greatness from Caitlin Flanagan @CaitlinPacific theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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BOOK COVER REVEAL "In this raw coming-of-age memoir, Rob Henderson vividly recounts growing up in foster care, enlisting in the US Air Force, attending elite universities, and pioneering the concept of 'luxury beliefs'—ideas and opinions that confer status on the upper class…
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