Carol Tavris

Jan 22, 2025 | the-tls.co.uk | Daniel Susskind |Carol Tavris |Michael Reid |Max Harris

This is the second new book that David Graeber, the anthropologist and anarchist, has published since his death aged fifty-nine in late 2020, and that his thoughts continue to surprise, challenge and confuse us says a great deal about the depth of his intellectual creativity. The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World is an entertaining smorgasbord of his ideas, drawn from various essay collections and articles and interviews with him, edited by his wife and co-author, Nika Dubrovsky.

Sep 30, 2024 | davidbrin.com | Carol Tavris |Elliot Aronson |David Brin |Runaway Serfer

It all began when my publisher sent me out on what used to be called a Chautauqua circuit — public seminars and panels and rubber-chicken dinners — to promote my books. That's when I began noticing something very strange about the way people have started thinking these days. Publicity tours can be pretty tedious at times. Even science-fiction conventions start to blur after too long an exposure. Maybe that's when I started seeing things I otherwise would have ignored.

Aug 2, 2024 | skeptic.com | Carol Tavris

It seems obvious that we live in the era of cancel culture, but what does that mean, exactly? To many on the left, “cancel culture” is merely a whiny self-defensive term offered by justifiably banished academics, writers, and celebrities—“cis white intellectuals” as one online writer disdainfully put it—who face no realistic threats to their freedom or livelihoods.

Dec 6, 2023 | skeptic.com | Carol Tavris

“And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?” “The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.” Schools, from kindergarten to graduate programs, are always ground zero in any culture war.

May 19, 2023 | skeptic.com | Carol Tavris

As Mary McCarthy famously wrote of Lillian Hellman, “Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the.’” This observation now has particular applicability to Republican congressman George Santos. He’s biracial. He’s a Jew; no, he later explained, he’s Jew-ish. His mother died on 9/11. He went to two universities. He’s wealthy. He is a Ukrainian descendant of Holocaust survivors.