TIME Magazine: What Is a Democratic Socialist?

Interestingly, as it often happens when I am in Finland, I was thinking along the lines of this Time Magazine article. Each time I am here, I see and experience the outcome of a social system very different from the one we have in the US. I like what I experience, even though I see the cost of all of the things I like.

This article, however, emphasizes that Democratic Socialism is something different.

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Hidden Brain: Cynicism and Scepticism

This Hidden Brain episode is called “Fighting Despair,” but I became really focused when it came to the second part: the cynicism and the skepticism as an alternative. Before I heard this episode, I never thought about a formal definition of these concepts. Here is how the psychologist Jamil Zaki defines them:

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