Dear Gentle Readers,
Here are this week’s reads. I hope you enjoy them!
Psychopaths are more like you and me than we care to admit
Aeon Magazine
Psychopaths are sick, deranged, lacking in moral conscience. In other words, they’re nothing like you or me. But this is false. There’s no major ability that psychopaths lack altogether, and their deficits are often small and circumscribed. They certainly aren’t incapable of telling right from wrong, making good decisions or experiencing empathy for other people.
Panic Attack review: a wake-up call the woke won't read
The Guardian
How and why has the left changed? When did it adopt so many attitudes – identitarianism, censoriousness, puritanism, a propensity for moral panics – traditionally associated with the conservative right?
The Young Man and the Sea Sponge
Longreads
SpongeBob SquarePants turned 20 this summer. This is the story of how a marine biology teacher named Stephen Hillenburg gave life to an animated character who continues to delight fans worldwide.
Was the poet John Keats a graverobber?
BBC
Did the English Romantic poet John Keats steal bodies from graves? A closer look at some of the 19th-Century writer’s most revered works, including his famous odes composed 200 years ago in the spring and summer of 1819, reveals an unsettling preoccupation with the feel of cemetery soil and the merging of self with cremated remains
If there is an article that you’ve read on our platform that I haven’t highlighted which you really consider to be a hidden gem, then let me know and I’ll try and include it in next week’s roundup.
While the artificial intelligence algorithm behind the signal.Fish product alerts me to numerous excellent stories each week, there’s also no harm in taking a few good old fashioned recommendations.
Happy reading!
Jack