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Faustians, Being Mean, and More

Faustians, Being Mean, and More

Aug 12, 2024
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Paul Bloom on strangling cats, raising kids, and why psychologists aren’t especially savvy about human behavior... more »

We’re all Faustians now. What’s at stake isn’t so much our souls as our privacy, along with much else... more »

For Montaigne, cruelty was the worst vice. But being mean, however fraught, has definite social value... more »

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