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How Culture Shapes Madness, my latest at Pacific Standard

Posted on October 3, 2017 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

“The Touch of Madness,” published online today in Pacific Standard magazine, is probably the most important article I’ve ever written. In the ...

Books/Culture of Science/Genetics/History of science/Readings

Should fitness share the stage with beauty? My review of Prum’s “Evolution of Beauty”

Posted on September 18, 2017 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

The Times Sunday Book Review, six days ahead of the Sunday paper, published today my review of Richard Prum’s “The Evolution of Beauty” (and a...

Culture/Healthcare policy/Medicine

On John McCain’s False Heroism

Posted on August 2, 2017 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

My latest at Slate went up a couple days ago, after John McCain performed a weeklong drama in which he first revived the Kill Obamacare movement and then, telli...

Books/Culture/Readings/Writing

John Berger and Susan Sontag’s delicious shoptalk and big hair

Posted on January 8, 2017 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

What a fabulous conversation this is, between two giants we’ve lost. You see here, in this quiet, quietly intense, intensely curious conversation — in which (a ...

Brains and Behavior/Politics

How anger creates a false feeling of power – and thus Trump

Posted on December 8, 2016 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

How was Trump able to harness so much anger, even though he had proposed no solutions and offered no way to build anything new? Martha Nussbaum offers that he c...

Culture/Culture of Science/The Best Thing I Read Just Now

“He Thinks He’s Untouchable”. Buzzfeed outs another serial harasser. 

Posted on June 29, 2016 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Accountability journalism ain’t quite dead yet. Azeen Ghorayshi with another great scoop on horrid behavior. One of the employees was an administrator who...

Law/On Journalism

Felix Salmon: Peter Thiel’s campaign against Gawker is a template for crushing media

Posted on May 26, 2016 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Salmon makes a strong and highly unsettling argument: The next step, after the Hogan verdict, was for Thiel to go public. After the enormous damages were announ...

Anthropology/Biology/Brains and Behavior/Culture/Culture of Science/Genetics/History of science/Published elsewhere

The Selfish Gene is a static meme, and that ain’t science

Posted on May 25, 2016 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Richard Dawkins’s “The Selfish Gene,” book and meme, is now 40 years old. Has it served its purpose? And how do we talk about whether it has? ...

Culture/Culture of Science/Genetics/History of science

Is the gene still selfish after all these years?

Posted on May 25, 2016 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

  Philip Ball on the strange, often savage defense of a 40-year-old meme past its prime: The fact is that genes can only propagate with the help of other g...

Culture/On Journalism

How A Billionaire Used a Wrestler to Get Revenge and Silence Gawker

Posted on May 25, 2016 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Angel investor Caterina Fake gets real on Peter Thiel: Generally, people avoid frivolous lawsuits because it often exposes them to as much scrutiny as those the...

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I write features, reviews, and essays for The New York Times, Write My Essays, National Geographic, EssayTigers, Aeon, Slate, EvolutionWriters, Chegg, Write My Paper and other companies and publications. I am also the author of three books, as well as the Atavist hit My Mother’s Lover, which tells the long-hidden story of my mother's secret WWII affair with a flight surgeon. MML became a # 1 best-selling Kindle Single and was chosen in 2014 by readers as their favorite Atavist publication.

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