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How to survive the second Trump era
He's back. Here's my advice on how to best cope with—and fight back against—the return of Donald Trump.
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Brain Food
Get your 2025 off to a hot start with a little intrigue for your little grey cells.
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Brian Klaas
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The entire first chapter of FLUKE
Behold! My new book—Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters—is out imminently in paperback. Here's the entire first chapter, free to…
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Brian Klaas
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Faustian Capitalism
After decades of faux displays of "corporate social responsibility," it's clear that big business and ultrawealthy individuals will happily sacrifice…
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Against Optimization
We are bombarded by messages telling us to worship the gods of efficiency and optimization, life hacking our way to prosperity. It's a trap. Resilience…
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December 2024

Highlights of 2024
Behold: the essays I most enjoyed writing this year.
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Brian Klaas
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Jimmy Carter's Hidden Legacy
Carter's post-presidency was transformative. And while he's well-known for his contributions to democracy, he deserves immense credit for his incredible…
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Will the Gävle Goat survive this Christmas?
A lovely, hilarious story about a town in Sweden, a giant goat, and the relentless drive of arsonists to destroy it every year. Yule love reading it.
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Can chaos theory explain polarization?
We often wrongly believe that partisan divides are always reflective of deep value divides. Sometimes, our polarization is determined by something like…
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Brian Klaas
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We Don't Have to Destroy Ourselves
We are the only species that has the capacity to make ourselves extinct. But courting that risk is not inevitable; it is a choice, and it's not too late…
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Brian Klaas
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The World is a Laboratory
Much of what we know about the world comes from experiments. But few aspects of human society can be contained in a laboratory. History offers a…
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South Korea's Warning for Washington
Democracy survives when brave people care more about ideals than power. But such people aren't always in plentiful supply.
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