Hidden Brain

When Bad Things Happen to Good People

We tend to think of justice as something that exists in the world — that good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people. When we see someone suffering, it's natural to assume they must have done something to deserve it. But this belief, psychologists have found, can cause us to blame the victims of misfortune rather than help them.

Hidden Brain

When Bad Things Happen to Good People

We have a deep commitment to the idea that good things happen to good people, and bad things happen to bad people. So when tragedy strikes someone who doesn't deserve it, it's a challenge to our sense of a just and orderly world. And that's deeply uncomfortable.

Daily Stoic

Colin Kaepernick Reflects On Taking a Knee 10 Years Later

Your political view should be based on not how this would work for you in your current position in society, but imagine you are behind a veil of ignorance. You are picking policies for a society and then everything's going to be scrambled up and you're not going to know where you fall on the spectrum.

Throughline

The genius and murkiness of the Constitution | Throughline

I feel like it's a document that has protected me and completely failed me and so many other people in this country.

Radiolab

What is a Pig Worth?

During his trial, Wayne made a truly bizarre argument that forced the jury, and all of us, to stare straight at our complicated, sometimes uncomfortable relationship with animals.