Why humans are surprisingly bad at being happy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF-xvBXgqa4 How to be happier in 5 steps with zero weird tricks | Laurie Santos Laurie Santos: Why humans are surprisingly bad at being happy You might assume that we are creatures that are built to be happy. But the sad thing is that we're really not wired for happiness. Natural selection honestly doesn't care …

Annelien de Dijn: Democratic Conception of Freedom [Transcript]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHVSsZLz_L4 Annelien de Dijn: Democratic Conception of Freedom 00:00 Since Ancient Greece freedom was equated with popular self-government01:43 The Atlantic revolutions & counter-revolutionary reconceptualization of freedom as state non-interference03:40 Counter-revolutionary backlash against democracy & the birth of liberalism08:02 John Stuart Mill & tyranny of the majority vs. Jeremy Bentham & tyranny of the elites ("sinister …

Factory Girls (Lowell Mill Girls)

Lowell mill girls - Wikipedia The Voice of Industry Website BooksNorman Ware: The Industrial WorkerThomas Dublin: Women at WorkPhillip Foner: Factory GirlsDavid Zonderman: Aspirations and AnxietiesBenita Eisler: The Lowell Offering: Writings by New England Mill Women (1840-1945) When you sell your product, you retain your person. But when you sell your labour, you sell yourself, …

Benjamin Constant: The Liberty of Ancients Compared with that of Moderns (1819)

Benjamin Constant: The Liberty of Ancients Compared with that of Moderns (1819) PDF Wikipedia Gentlemen, I wish to submit for your attention a few distinctions, still rather new, between two kinds of liberty: these differences have thus far remained unnoticed, or at least insufficiently remarked. The first is the liberty the exercise of which was …