Perceiving Decline

By now, dozens of studies suggest—if not outright demonstrate—that the sense of civilizational decline is, to a significant extent, a feature of the human mind itself. It arises from a…

Addicted to simplicity

In recent years, dopamine has become something of a buzzword—a fashionable concept invoked everywhere, usually in a negative sense, as something that is supposedly “damaging our brains.” There is no…

WWBRDD

In the second half of the 1990s, a simple acronym swept across America: WWJD. You could spot it on license plates, on houses, on caps and bracelets. It stood for…