Religion makes cooperation a winning strategy
Connor Wood Human life depends absolutely on cooperation. Unlike other animals, we don’t have big fangs, sharp claws, or leather-thick hides. Instead, we have our ability to work efficiently with each...
View ArticleWe are all teachers. Or at least we should be.
Internet comments and opinion pieces show that we're all pretty impatient with those who disagree with us. But if we as a culture are going to begin to solve our problems, rather than merely sit around...
View ArticleThe Brexit, the farmer, and the forager
Psychologists say authoritarianism is to blame for the Brexit and Donald Trump. But there's another way to see things: cosmopolitans think like hunter-gatherers, while populists think like farmers.The...
View ArticleIs a global community really possible?
This was supposed to be an era of globalism and tolerance. But if we want the global community to seem real, we have to use ritual and myth to make it real.
View ArticleFirst Came the Temple – Then the City?
Looking at the world's towns and cities from above, a fascinating pattern appears: we build our civilizations around temples. What would an alien visitor think?
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