This is not a hall of correct people. It is a shelf of people who have produced ideas worth wrestling with. Admiration is not agreement, and disagreement is not dismissal.
Useful for rhetorical courage, criticism of religion and the insistence that claims do not become sacred merely because people care deeply about them.
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Useful for thinking about memes in their original intellectual sense, belief systems, consciousness and the danger of explanations that merely rename mysteries.
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Her work provides a sharp cultural lens on self-presentation, beauty, dating, mental health culture and the commercialisation of identity.
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Important for understanding moral tribalism and the strongest contemporary case that smartphone-based childhood has harmed adolescent wellbeing.
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Useful for evolutionary reasoning, scientific communication and the original popularisation of the meme as a unit of cultural transmission.
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Useful for discussions about attention, meditation, belief, religion and the attempt to talk about difficult subjects without pretending language has no consequences.
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Useful here for his work on rationality, cognitive bias, historical trends and his scepticism toward fashionable explanations that outrun the data.
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