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Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything (Kelly Weill)

Will Sanctions Work? War in Ukraine.

How Civil Wars Start & How to Stop Them, including in the United States (Barbara F. Walter)

Woke Archaeology and Erasing the Past (Elizabeth Weiss)

Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media (Jacob Mchangama)

Nick Pope on UAPs, UFOs, Conspiracies, and Cover-ups

How Lives Turn Out: Genes, Environment, Pluck, and Luck (Frank Sulloway)

How Occam’s Razor Shapes the Universe (Johnjoe McFadden)

How Psychiatry Has Gone Woke, and Other Troubling Developments in Science (Sally Satel)

Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies & Tears Them Down (Jonathan Gottschall)

I Might Be Wrong (Jeff Maurer talks with Michael Shermer)

Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking (Leonard Mlodinow)

A Human History of Emotion: How the Way We Feel Built the World We Know (Richard Firth-Godbehere)

Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us (Brian Klaas)

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (David Wengrow)
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