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The Courage of Naomi Wolf
Lately I’ve been fascinated by the question of moral courage: what it is, who possesses it. So often we see courage right under our noses, and fail to recognize it. I think that’s the case with Naomi Wolf, author of The Beauty Myth and, more recently, Vagina. Wolf has made a career of speaking her truth. Time [...]

Do Introverts and Extroverts See Reality Differently? (And What Does This Question Have to Do With Your Relationships?)
“Are Extroverts Ruining Psychologists’ Surveys?” So read the LiveScience headline, in an article describing research findings that extroverts answer survey questions with more extreme responses than introverts do. It doesn’t matter what type of question it is. Whether asked to rate how much they liked a photo of a nature scene, or how disgusted they’d [...]

How to Transcend the Red-Blue Divide: Make Everyone Sit Still
When was the last time you watched a political news program whose outlook you didn’t agree with — not to make fun, or to take pleasure in criticizing, but because you sincerely wanted to learn something? If you’re like most people, the answer is probably “never,” or thereabouts. The U.S. has famously divided into red and blue [...]
