In the middle of the 20th century, philosopher-in-exile Hannah Arendt identified loneliness as a key factor in the ideologies that brought about so much of the time’s devastation. Now, in the 21st ...

In her new book, “The Ideological Brain,” the neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod outlines what makes some people prone to rigid thinking. “Ideologies numb our direct experience of the world,” Leor Zmigrod, a ...

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