This post is part of a series on Tim Urban’s book, What’s Our Problem? a self-help book for societies. -- To explain our current political environment, Tim Urban posits that human nature is fundamentally constant—we’re just evolved apes often controlled by our limbic system i.e.

This post is part of a series on Tim Urban’s book, What’s Our Problem? a self-help book for societies. -- Last week we discussed high-rung politics, based on a culture of intellectual humility and open, nuanced debate. Today, we'll explore low-rung politics, or what Tim Urban

This post is part of a series on Tim Urban’s book, What’s Our Problem? a self-help book for societies. -- In previous posts in this series (see here and here), we distinguished between high-rung intellectual cultures, or Idea Labs, and low-rung intellectual cultures, or Echo Chambers. Now let’