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Professor of Management & Organizations

Violence Vanquished

My Genome, My Self

Q&A: Steven Pinker’s Case for Why the World Is Heading Toward Peace

The End of World Violence?

Will War Ever End?

It may have seemed like the world fell apart in 2016. Steven Pinker is here to tell you it didn’t.

Is Violence History?

History and the Decline of Human Violence

The Better Angels of Our Nature hits No. 1 on Amazon following Bill Gates tweet

Bill Gates told new grads to read this book. Now it’s surging on Amazon

StevenPinker.com

Best science books of 2021

The Decline of War and Violence

Sex and Islam do mix, but not in America

Veiled Threat: The many problems with France’s proposed burqa ban.

I’m a Moderate Biker Gang Member Compelled to Condemn This Violence

30 Dos and Don’ts for Covering Muslims and Islam in the Media

Mr. Trump, I’m used to standing out in the crowd.

“Please don’t let it be a Muslim”

On Eid, here’s how Ramadan changed my despair about the world into hope

Here’s ‘What’s Going On’ With Muslims

Inshallah Is Good for Everyone

My Resistance Movement

Americans will always rather feel safe, than be free

Goodbye, Barack Hussein Obama: America’s first ‘Muslim president’

The Travel Ban Ruling Means My Kids Don’t Belong

Do Muslims Have to be Democrats?

Preparing for Hajj With a Dad Brain

The Contradictions of Hajj, Through the Lens of a Smartphone

The First Half of MJ

I Want ‘Allahu Akbar’ Back

My Toddler Survived Cancer. Then Came the Coronavirus.

Have faith, but tie your camel first

A Muslim Among Israeli Settlers

100 Women 2014: Exploring stereotypes across Russia

Analytical Spontaneity

Russian Artist Creates Surreal Photos to Illustrate Traditional Fairy Tales

Interview with Photographer Uldus Bakhtiozina

What’s Your Consumption Factor?

Uldus.com

The Inventory: Jared Diamond

Will Big Business Save the Earth?

How to Handle a National Crisis

In ‘Upheaval,’ Jared Diamond Examines Crisis Resolution Through A Personal Lens

How We Can Stop the Next New Virus

Under Pressure: Have We Arrived at Another Turning Point in American History?

Jared Diamond: Lessons From a Pandemic

JaredDiamond.org

Like Finland, Imagine Everything That Could Go Wrong

My Summer at an Indian Call Center

Silicon Valley’s Crisis of Conscience

Free Speech Is Killing Us

In ‘Antisocial,’ How the Alt-Right Went Viral

Trolls for Trump

This Psychological Trick Will Help You Let Go Of Anger And Resentment More Quickly

The Benefits of Talking to Yourself

The Happiness Industrial Complex

Some People Don’t Talk to Themselves. Are They Better Off?

The Voice of Reason

5 Types Of Self-Talk That Help You Excel In Your Career

Don’t Go Down a Coronavirus Anxiety Spiral

How to break the cycle of negative thoughts during a pandemic

What to Do When You Can’t Catch a Break

The ‘Batman Effect’: How having an alter ego empowers you

Having negative thoughts? How to talk yourself out of them

The Next Big Idea Club’s 2 Official Selections for Winter 2021

How to Stop the Negative Chatter in Your Head

Quit Overthinking Things

Psychologist Ethan Kross Tells Anderson How to Combat Anxiety

Best nonfiction of 2021

Can We Control the Voice in Our Head?

EthanKross.com

Ethan Kross

A Word With Spike Lee: ‘They Want to Rewind the Clock’

Spike Lee on gun violence, Chi-Raq film and Donald Trump

Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq tackles gun violence with modern take on Lysistrata

40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks

Review: Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’ Journeys Into White America’s Heart of Darkness

Online Learning, Personalized

How Khan Academy Is Changing the Rules of Education

How Bill Gates’ Favorite Teacher Wants to Disrupt Education

Take a look inside the ultimate school

One Man, One Computer, 10 Million Students: How Khan Academy Is Reinventing Education

Khan Academy

Artists in Conversation

Teju Cole

Teju Cole uses his camera and his writing to pry open the cities he visits in ‘Blind Spot’

When I tweet I’m still a writer

Teju Cole Pairs Text and Image to Explore the Mysteries of the Ordinary

Second Sight

“the fulfillment of an intellectual project that has defined most of his career.”

Travel Advice from Teju Cole

Blind Spot by Teju Cole Review: A Writer’s Photographs

A Burning Collection

Finding My Way to a New Form: An Interview with Teju Cole

An Interview with Photographer Teju Cole

TejuCole.com

A Fix for Gender Bias? Check.

Is This How Discrimination Ends?

Why it Matters that Digital Assistants are Always Female

Does Starbucks Understand the Science of Racial Bias?

Overcoming Unconscious Age Bias: An Expert’s Advice

Jessica Nordell

‘The End of Bias’ Says There’s Hope for Meaningful Change

Could Google’s Carbon Emissions Have Effectively Doubled Overnight?

Putting Pressure on the Finance World Could Be One of the Most Effective Ways to Fight Climate Change

Climate Change, the Problem from Hell

Bill McKibben, dirty deals & unrecognizable seasons

Bill McKibben Reckons with the Glorified American History of His Boyhood

BillMcKibben.com

350.org

Welcome to the Climate Crisis Newsletter

How America’s White Power Movement Coalesced After The Vietnam War

“Bring the War Home”: The Long History of White Power and Paramilitary Violence in the United States

Kathleen Belew

Why domestic terrorism is an underestimated national threat

Why Kids Love Baseball

The Case of the Missing Zeroes

The Beauty of Bounded Gaps

Solve your problems with maths guru Professor Jordan Ellenberg

This Psychologist Might Outsmart the Math Brains Competing for the Netflix Prize

The Wrong Way to Treat Child Geniuses

Childhood Talent Should Not Be A Duty to Fulfill

How Canada Ended Gerrymandering

The Lottery Scheme

Jordan Ellenberg’s ‘How Not to Be Wrong,’ and More

JordanEllenberg.com

How Computers Turned Gerrymandering Into a Science

My mother’s escape from Khmer Rouge

Karaoke Used to Support State Propaganda

Khmer Rouge Tribunal vs. Karmic Justice

One Way Out

Cambodian ‘Justice’

SophalEar.com

Keepers of the cask

How the Tough New Dragon on Dragons’ Den Built Her Booming Business

6 Entrepreneurial Lessons from New Dragon Manjit Minhas

How Dragons’ Den Personality Manjit Minhas Invests Her Own Money

Beer Baroness. Mompreneur. Badass.

Have the Courage to Succeed, Manjit Minhas Tells U of C Women in Work Conference

Investor Manjit Minhas Is a Proud Dragon on Canada’s Version of “Shark Tank”

Manjit Minhas, Brewery CEO

How Two Canadian Siblings Founded One of the Biggest Craft Breweries in the US

How Beer Baroness Manjit Minhas Broke Through Barriers to Achieve Small Business Success

The Manjit Minhas Podcast

Q&A: Dragons’ Den star Manjit Minhas sounds off on style

ManjitMinhas.com

Joe Jackman’s Coming Out Party

Interview with Joe Jackman, CEO of Jackman Inc.

Inside the eclectically cool workspace of Jackman Reinvents

Inside the Industry Interview with Joe Jackman, Chief Executive Officer of Jackman Reinvention Inc.

FreshCo, Old Navy, Rexall: Joe Jackman helps retailers get their mojo back

Jackman Reinvention founder Joe Jackman on how to reboot your brand

It’s a Cool Time to Be In The Business of Food

Dollerama’s Higher Price Points Are Working For Them

Joe Jackman on BOLD TV

Future of Business & E-Commerce

The Reinventionist Podcast

Jackman

Joe Jackman

Emotion By Design – Greg Hoffman just did it for Nike

Nike CMO: ‘No Bigger Stage Than the Olympics’

The 50 most innovative CMOs in the world

The Most Creative People in Business – Greg Hoffman

The Marketing Genius Behind Nike

Modern Arena

Rick Mercer: youth vote could ‘change the country’

Rick Mercer’s Online Comments Rant Calls on Media to Shut Down the Hate

Rick Mercer Wins Governor General’s Award for Lifetime Achievement

Why I rant. And why you should too.

RickMercer.com

How the founder of online portfolio manager Wealthsimple is investing his money

How my startup raised $30-million from Power Corp.

How Wealthsimple founder Michael Katchen is shaking up financial advice

Mike Katchen Says BMO Tried to Build Its Own Wealthsimple to Compete in Growing Fintech Market

Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #38, Michael Katchen

Interview with Michael Katchen, CEO of Wealthsimple: Leadership and managing rapid growth. Part 1 of 2.

Podcast: Wealthsimple founder and CEO Michael Katchen on investing for millennials

Wealthsimple CEO Opens Up on Challenges of Being a Young Leader

Can Wealthsimple Teach Millennials How Not to Be Broke?

At 29 Years Old, Michael Katchen Raises Another $37M In New Series B Funding

Mr. Nice Guy

Instagram Unleashes an AI System to Blast Away Nasty Comments

Q&A: Nicholas Thompson looks to push Wired into the future by returning to radical roots

The AI Cold War That Threatens Us All

Inside The Two Years That Shook Facebook—And The World

NicholasThompson.com

15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook

Will Artificial Intelligence Enhance or Hack Humanity?

Luke Burgis, Entrepreneur-in-Residence

Beauty and the Billionaire: What a Fashion Magnate Shares with Pope Francis

Return on Silence: A 3-Day Challenge to Business Leaders

The Weekly: Baby Constantin

Luke Burgis

Caitlin Dickerson

How Fake News Turned a Small Town Upside Down

Reporter Who Helped Expose Conditions At The Border Says Little Has Changed

‘Divided,’ Part 1: How Family Separations Started

A Colorblind Constitution

House Rules

How the Media Missed the Mark in Coverage of Michael Brown’s Killing

America’s Long Civil Rights March, Complete With Stops and Starts

Gentrification doesn’t fix inner-city schools

How School Segregation Divides Ferguson — and the United States

The Problem We All Live With

The Continuing Reality of Segregated Schools

A Prescription for More Black Doctors

A Letter From Black America

Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City

Segregation Now …

For Black Women in South Carolina, It’s Clinton’s Turn

How The Systemic Segregation Of Schools Is Maintained By ‘Individual Choices’

‘Surreal’: A Reporter Is in the Center of a Story She Covered

Schools are segregated because white people want them that way

The Resegregation of Jefferson County

2017 Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism

A Call For Reparations: Nikole Hannah-Jones On The Wealth Gap

Nikole Hannah-Jones Made Black History With The 1619 Project, And She’s Not Done Yet

A Chat With MacArthur Genius Nikole Hannah-Jones

What Is Owed: ‘It is Time for Reparations’

Nikole Hannah-Jones on the Case for Reparations

Nikole Hannah-Jones isn’t done challenging the story of America

Simone Biles, Lizzo, & Nikole Hannah-Jones Cover The November/December Issue Of ESSENCE

NikoleHannahJones.com

The Best of Nikole Hannah-Jones

The 1619 Project

What Time Feels Like When You’re Improvising

Defense Mechanisms: Neuroscience Meets Psychoanalysis

HeatherBerlin.com

Why a Healthy Person’s Perception of Time Is Inaccurate

The Safest Suburb In The World Did It By Ending The Culture Of Cars

How to Make Your City Happier

Greener Pastures: Charles Montgomery’s ‘Happy City’

How Urban Design Influences How Many Friends You Have

CharlesMontgomery.ca

Rainbow Painted Crosswalks Can Boost Trust Among Strangers

The secrets of the world’s happiest cities

What Do Iranian-Americans Think of the Nuclear Deal?

In CNN’s ‘Believer,’ Reza Aslan to aim for a window on world religions

Author Reza Aslan reveals 5 pieces of writing that changed his life

Why this perfect response to negative stereotypes about Islam is being shared again

On Election Day, the bad guy won. Here’s how we broke it to our kids.

Religious scholar Reza Aslan ponders Donald Trump, the power of pop culture and faith in America

Religion Scholar And TV Host Reza Aslan Is Not Going To Pick A Lane

On Anthropomorphizing God

What Happens When You Fall in Love Across the Religious Divide?

RezaAslan.com

These Are The 2018 TED Fellows, Finding Inspiring Solutions To Global Problems

Iceland’s glacier communities’ stories help us navigate a changing planet

Dr. M Jackson

As glaciers disappear, humans lose a lot more than ice

Pokémon Go Was a Warning About the Rise of Surveillance Capitalism

We Are the Pawns

You Are the Object of a Secret Extraction Operation

Meet the scholar who diagnosed ‘surveillance capitalism’

Musk bid for Twitter underscores the risks of social media ownership

The social impact of an Elon Musk-owned Twitter

The EU has fired the starting gun in the fightback against Big Tech

ShoshanaZuboff.com

Democracy Can Still End Big Tech’s Dominance Over Our Lives

Mindsets: how to maximise your mental potential

New book ‘U Thrive,’ based on popular NYU class, all about college success

How to Embrace The Right Kind of Passion

Making Stress Work For You Instead of Against You

An Interview With Dan Lerner

Don’t be boring, follow Jeremy Gutsche’s advice

DanielLerner.com

Jeremy Gutsche—Founder, Trend Hunter Inc.

Five Inspiring Steps to Innovation with Jeremy Gutsche

How to find product opportunities, trends, and mega trends–with Jeremy Gutsche

Canada’s Next Leaders: Trend Hunter CEO Jeremy Gutsche

Finding Your Inner Scorpion

7 Ways to Avoid the Common Traps That Are Holding Your Business Back

JeremyGutsche.com

Attention To Now And Spotting Trends In A Post Covid-19 World With Jeremy Gutsche

5 Ways to Ensure AI Unlocks Its Full Potential to Serve Humanity

Papers and Citations

Faculty Profile

Official Website

Moonshots of the Intelligent Age

XLabs Blog

Kenyan Director Wanuri Kahiu on Her Once-Banned Film ‘Rafiki’: ‘I Know That I’m Created to Work’

Meet the Director Suing the Government That Banned Her Lesbian Romance

Wanuri Kahiu on Banned LGBT Love Story ‘Rafiki’: ‘It’s Time We Had Fun’

Science Fiction Has Ancient Roots in Africa. Why Shouldn’t It Also Have a Future There?

WanuriKahiu.com

AFROBUBBLEGUM

Maj. Hegar: A Woman Who Has Already Seen Combat

Servicewomen File Suit Over Direct Combat Ban

“Shoot Like a Girl”: Mary Jennings Hegar on possessing a warrior’s heart

A Purple Heart Warrior Takes Aim At Military Inequality In ‘Shoot Like A Girl’

100 Leading Global Thinkers

The female pilot on the frontline

After the Battlefield, Hero Vet Fights for Equality at Home

Why This Military Hero Wasn’t at All Shocked by the Marine Nude Photo Scandal

30 Under 30: Social Entrepreneurs

13 Faces That Tell the Story of 2018

Female War Hero Leads New Wave of Veteran Candidates