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Turns out there is a time I’d “Swipe Right” (and the book that convinced me)

True confessions: Against that backdrop, Eric Winter’s Swipe Right on your Best Self arrived by mail. Here we go again, I thought. Except we didn’t. We went somewhere else instead. Winters had told me his book was “reassuringly small.” At first glance, it appeared he may be right. I have a case of too-many-balls-in-the-air just …

Stuff that Definitely Doesn’t Suck – a review of Ben Sedley’s “Stuff that Sucks”

I don’t know what your reading list is like – maybe it’s a little like mine. Last year, I was super excited to hear a colleague of mine had his book published.  What a magnificent achievement.  Then I looked at the pile of books beside my bed I was slowly making my way through, and …

An Answer to the “War on [Pretty Much Everything]” – reviewing Anthony Biglan’s “The Nurture Effect”

There’s this mother sitting before me and she tries to stem the tears. It’s been weeks since her son has been to school. We’ve been tracking this for a while, her and I – and today her exhaustion is palpable. This mother who would move the heavens and the earth for her children; whose resources …