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How does ‘common knowledge’ shape our individual lives and our societies? Steven Pinker has some ideas

How does ‘common knowledge’ shape our individual lives and our societies? Steven Pinker has some ideas

We believe things because doing so helps us belong and upholds a certain moral order, but not necessarily because they are true.

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Jamie Q. Roberts

Guide to the classics: Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim sees humanity’s darkness

Conrad suggests our sense of being good derives from our belonging – yet that to which we belong is not necessarily good.

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Jamie Q. Roberts

‘The true shadow of calamity’: Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim sees humanity’s darkness

Conrad suggests our sense of being good derives from our belonging – yet that to which we belong is not necessarily good.

21.08.2025 9

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Jamie Q. Roberts

Catch-22 : the great antiwar novel whose barbs still strike home, even in times of peace

‘Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts,’ Joseph Heller once said – ‘and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?’

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Jamie Q. Roberts