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Article Title: Let us now stop praising famous men (and women)   Article Summary The article at hand sees the author advocating the abolition of the fetishism the rich and famous find themselves in the thick of, today. The author writes that the system of...

Article Title: What Makes People Believe in Conspiracy Theories?   Article Summary The article at issue is an interview piece where an expert is quizzed on the nuances of conspiracy theory belief. He takes us through the probable causes and natures of belief in...

Being and drunkenness: how to party like an existentialist   Article Summary The article at issue talks about Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir with respect to their partying habits, and links those habits to the core philosophy endorsed by these people,...

Article Title: Role Models Who Break the Mold Fortify Identity Construction   Article Summary The article at hand tracks the author’s journey into personal liberation and high-endurance sport, placing his role models as road maps on the way to success. In the...

Article Title: The hypersane are among us, if only we are prepared to look   Article Summary The article at issue elucidates to the reader what the meaning of ‘hyper-sanity’ is, and what its probable benefits could be. Drawing on the teachings and lives of RD...

Article Title: Why, this year, Last Night of the Proms will be woke   Article Summary In the article at issue, the composer author makes his case for why he thinks western classical music should be inclusive, and relates his efforts towards making it that way. He...

Article Title: Why speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser   Article Summary The article at issue makes a case for the productive study of wisdom, stressing on the use of “illeism” as a way to increase wisdom and intellectual health at least in...

Article Title: UK cancer survival rates are too low – our priorities are all wrong   Article Summary The article at hand examines, at length, the shortcomings in the cancer treatment system of the UK’s NHS. The article comes in the wake of findings that cancer...

Article Title: Spot the psychopath   Article Summary The article at hand peers into the mental makeup of psychopaths, trying to locate factors that make them different from or similar to ‘normal’ people. The generally established fact when it comes to them is...

Article Title: The Peaky Blinders cult is another sign of our discontented times   Article Summary In the article at issue, the author comments on the popularity of the British TV show Peaky Blinders, mulling the reasons behind its fame, and what the implications...

Article Title: The first socialist   Article Summary The article at hand introduces the reader to the thinking of Cesare Beccaria, and comments on the surprising profundity he must have held for his centuries-old opinions to be relevant even in contemporary...

Article Title: Medicalising everyday life doesn’t help anyone’s mental health   Article Summary The article at issue offers perspective on the issue of growing mental health awareness around the globe, and actually opines that too much of it is a bad idea. The...