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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...

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A rowdy, harrowing, vital book: My Times review of ‘Galileo’s Middle Finger,’ by Alice Dreger.

Posted on April 17, 2015 by David Dobbs / 6 Comments

I’ve a review of Alice Dreger’s latest book in this week’s New York Times Sunday Book Review; it just appeared online.   “Galileo’s Middl...

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The 80 richest people own as much as the poorest 3.5 billion

Posted on January 20, 2015 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

  Hand it to the rich — no, wait, they already took it. Anyway, they get the job done. From my latest Read 2 roundup, a connection of pieces on wealth pain...

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Read 2: Trouble at Vassar, peace in Rwanda, success at the Strand. Plus Angela Merkel’s secret & how brains create agency.

Posted on December 1, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

The Astonishing Rise of Angela Merkel. By George Packer at The New Yorker John Kornblum, a former U.S. Ambassador to Germany, who still lives in Berlin, said, “...

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Is SCOTUS’s gambit to wreck healthcare unprecedented?

Posted on November 13, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Linda Greenhouse says it is — and that next to SCOTUS’s decision to put Obamacare on the choppping block, Bush v. Gore was nothing. There was no urgency. There ...

Books/Culture/Education/Healthcare policy/Medicine

Why Do Military Brats Kick Butt in Reading and Math?

Posted on January 22, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Helen Epstein, in an aside in her fine piece on public-health innovator Sara Josephine Baker, suggests it rises partly from the excellent healthcare, daycare, a...

Brains and Behavior/Culture of Science

How The Deniers Win: Question Motives

Posted on June 17, 2013 by David Dobbs / 1 Comment

Updated 06/17/2013 11:16am EDT (see tail end of story) James Gilbert has the goods over at The Conversation: Climate sceptics have won, Martin Wolf lamented in ...

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Obama Adds “Romnesia” to Diagnostic Manual

Posted on October 21, 2012 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

No reason the President shouldn’t join the DSM-V frenzy. “I’m not a doctor. But I think we should go over the symptoms.” Via the absolut...

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Do Big Governments Make for Small People?

Posted on July 26, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

That’s what John Boehner said last night. Ezra Klein brings the fact-check: “You know,” Speaker John Boehner said last night, “I’ve always believed the bi...

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Malcolm Gladwell: Twitter, You’re No Martin Luther King

Posted on September 27, 2010 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Malcolm Gladwell has roiled things up with an article arguing that fans of social media tools like Twitter and Facebook are wildly overstating the powers of 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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