"'Reporter' demonstrates that Hersh has derived three simple lessons from that rule:The powerful prey mercilessly upon the powerless, up to and including mass murder.The powerful lie constantly about their predations.The natural instinct of the media is to let the powerful get away with it."—Jon Schwarz, "Seymour Hersh’s New Memoir Is a Fascinating, Flabbergasting Masterpiece." The … Continue reading Seymour Hersh’s “Reporter”
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Happiness Hows
"Santos looks at the work of Sonja Lyubomirsky, a psychologist at the University of California, Riverside, and the author of The How of Happiness. Lyubomirsky is well known for her thought experiment about what affects our happiness, which she expresses in a pie chart: She proposes that roughly 50 percent of happiness is determined by … Continue reading Happiness Hows
