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"We read to learn, and learning always begins by admitting what we don’t know."
In Vol. 113, three recommendations on the topic of staying curious.
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Curiosity is at the heart of Culture Briefing. Here are 3 ways we keep it alive.
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This week: 3 tips from Philip Lorish on how to stay curious.
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In case you missed it: four volumes on mental health from the Culture Briefing archive, re-presented in the hope that topics we’ve discussed in the past can help make sense of the news of the present. newcitycommons.com/culture-b…
This week, we revisit 4 prior volumes on the topic of mental health. Read along here: newcitycommons.com/culture-b…
“The number of people dying by suicide in the United States has risen by about 30 percent in the past two decades”—and rates are now rising faster among women than men. –@NPR newcitycommons.com/culture-b…
The sad news of the deaths of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain has once again turned a spotlight on mental health and depression, and the resources available to help those they afflict. newcitycommons.com/culture-b…
What @JonMalesic, @davidgraeber, Farr Curlin, and Wendell Berry can teach us about navigating vocational BURNOUT.
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"Burnout is a sustained alienation from work; “manifested”—as @JonMalesic puts it—“in exhaustion, cynicism, and feelings of inefficacy,” with no simple remedy.
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Guest author Dr. Sumner Abraham, M.D. examines yet another effect of the changing nature of work: the proliferation of the phenomenon called burnout.
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Online groups promoting toxic masculinity emerge in a cultural climate. We name 3 features of that climate in Vol. 110.
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What are men looking for when they log onto a Red Pill forum—and why?
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"The tragic irony of toxic online communities is that what they claim to offer—conversation, understanding, empathy, relationship—are precisely the moral capacities that are most depleted, endangered, and ultimately inaccessible within their walls."
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This week, we take closer look at the cultural sources of last week’s topic: an upswell of online communities dedicated to asserting, promoting, defending, and recruiting for a worrisome concept of masculinity. newcitycommons.com/culture-b…
There's a widespread and heated debate on the nature of masculinity. It's taking place in a particular cultural climate with features we can name. And it has real-world consequences that demand our attention.
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Online communities are taking an increasingly central role in the formation of young men – here’s why it matters.
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Recent years have seen an upswell of communities dedicated to asserting, promoting, defending, and recruiting for their own idealized concept of masculinity. This week, we turn a spotlight on some of the most toxic.
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ICYMI: Clay Cooke on race and the American evangelical church.
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This week, what Russell Moore, Mark Labberton, and other evangelical leaders have to say about race and the church—and why it matters. newcitycommons.com/culture-b…
In recent decades, race wasn’t often a topic of public conversation among white American evangelicals. Things have changed—or, at least, are changing. newcitycommons.com/culture-b…