Fairness and equality

Fairness and equality
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Teaching self-confidence can backfire and perpetuate inequality
It’s true that self-confidence is beneficial, but the way in which it’s often taught is misguided and can be harmful
by Eddie Brummelman & Kelly Ziemer

Change and self-development
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The cult of being confident and why it doesn’t help women
By making women solely responsible for their own empowerment, the culture of confidence masks the true causes of inequality
by Rosalind Gill & Shani Orgad

Civic life
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The power of Langston Hughes’s ‘melancholy citizenship’
Langston Hughes’s poetry offers a guide to the sort of melancholy citizenship that can help us weather democratic heartbreak
by Robert L Tsai

Human evolution
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Let everyone sparkle: psychotechnology in the year 2067
In the year 2067, the decorations are not the only things that sparkle. We ourselves glow and fizz with psychotechnology
by Eric Schwitzgebel

Socioeconomics of mental health
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Why we shouldn’t push a positive mindset on those in poverty
Living in poverty is not caused by a faulty mindset, it’s a response to scarcity and marginalisation
by Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington

Thinkers and theories
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Musonius Rufus: Roman Stoic, and avant-garde feminist?
For Musonius Rufus, the Stoic feminist, enduring things as they are is no obstacle to striving for things as they should be
by Massimo Pigliucci