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Alex Danco lives in Toronto, works at Shopify, and writes an excellent blog and newsletter on Substack. In April 2019,…
This piece is about the phenomenon of casting the first stone and its cultural relevance. The following essay compares two…
By Mark Anspach Did a woman come between Freud and Jung? That was the irresistible pitch for the 2011 David…
The ideas that form the basis for the free market economy—ideas like “freedom” and “justice”—are at the heart of the…
Mimetic desire can be understood as an abstract concept, but it doesn’t really hit home until we see it in…
American cultural lumineers like Tim Ferriss (stoicism is “an ideal operating system for thriving in high-stress environments”) and Nassim Nicholas…
Anthropologists have spent decades trying to explain the enormous diversity between different groups of people. How did tipping twenty percent…
Living with Robots is a fascinating exploration of artificial intelligence that draws on mimetic theory to understand the phenomenon of…
The Humble Story of Don Quixote, written by a master of mimetic theory (Bandera), applies mimetic theory to better understand…
[Note: We chose to display the cover from the French edition from the 60’s rather than the modern cover.] Erich…
The Joy of Being Wrong is a work of theological anthropology that looks at original sin (in the Christian tradition)…
The editor of this volume is Edward Fullbrook, who is founder and editor of the Real-World Economics Review and a…
The well-known psychiatrist Jean-Michel Oughourlian, a collaborator with René Girard on the book Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the…
The ideas that form the basis for the free market economy—ideas like “freedom” and “justice”—are at the heart of the…
Mimetic desire is desire according to another, or desire according to a model. Imitation is the force that shapes human…