Ode to a world-saving idea
...and to the psychologist who put it on the map. Jun 22 Hi! This issue of the newsletter went out to paid subscribers yesterday. If you like it, I hope you’ll consider becoming one of them. Five weeks ago the psychologist Lee Ross died, and five days ago the New York Times published his obituary. Better late than never. But, even with all that time for research, the obituary doesn’t do justice to its subject. By “its subject” I don’t mean Ross; he comes off very well. I mean the idea he is most closely associated with, an idea that occupies much of the obituary and is no doubt th...
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