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  The Four-Day Mirage: Why Working Less Makes Us Better Machines For centuries, the church, the state, and the factory floor have operated o...

  The AI-Generated Mirage: Why We Fall for the Ultimate Summer Scam There is a touching, profoundly naive belief that modern technology has ...

  The Eternal Cough: Why Hong Kong Cinema Turned Self-Sacrifice Into a Blockbuster Religion There is a touching, profoundly naive belief tha...

  The Melodramatic Martyr: Why Soap Operas are Just Historical Prophecies in Drag There is a touching, profoundly naive belief that human be...

  The Grand Illusion of Competence: Why the World is Run by Confident Mediocrity There is a touching, profoundly naive belief that human civ...

  The Honey Trap and the Ambien Fog: How Politics Becomes a Spy Novel There is a touching, profoundly naive belief that our elected official...

  The Currency of Charisma: Why the World Falls in Love with a Scripted Dream There is a touching, profoundly naive belief that fame is the ...

  The Iron Lady’s Prescription: Why Every Tantrum is Now a Medical Diagnosis There is a touching, profoundly naive belief that modern medici...

  The Christmas Tree Thrower: Why Insurance Fraud is Humanity's Favorite Olympic Sport There is a touching, profoundly naive belief that...

  The Fake Professor’s Credential: Why We Fall for Anyone Wearing a Fancy Title There is a touching, profoundly naive belief that modern soc...

  The Resurrection of Wen Daidai: Why Fiction Pays Better When You Are Dead There is a touching, profoundly naive belief that the internet i...

  The Cosmic Self-Help Scam: Why We Fall for Alien Manifestation Manuals There is a touching, profoundly naive belief that the universe is a...

  The Medal Mill: Why Society Runs on Cheap Plastic and Shiny Ribbons There is a touching, profoundly naive belief that modern democratic so...

  The Empire’s Cheap Trinkets: Why We Fall for Medals and Plastic Ribbons There is a touching, profoundly naive belief that adult human bein...

  The Emperor's Echo Chamber: Why Bosses Fall in Love with Flattery There is a touching, profoundly naive belief that powerful leaders g...

  The Bystander’s Double-Decker: Why Modern Civilization is Just a Bus Driving Past a Nightmare There is a touching, profoundly naive belief...

  The Neighborhood Spy: Why Information Is the Ultimate Retirement Plan History is a grand, cynical marketplace, and the oldest commodity on...

  The Eraser of Conscience: Why the Art of Rewriting Expiration Dates is Late-Capitalism’s Favorite Magic Trick Humanity has always possesse...

  The Phantom Takeaway: Why Blind Trust is Always a Restaurateur's Dearest Mistake Humanity has spent centuries inventing elaborate soci...

  The 1.88-Million-Dollar Math Lesson: Why Buying More Lottery Tickets is Just a Tax on Innumeracy Humanity has spent centuries mastering ca...