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Joseph Henrich • The Weirdest People In The World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
Alistair Knox

The Post-Individual
At last count, there were 507 inhabitants of Eugénie les Bains, and I suspect that a high proportion of them work in one way or another to attend to the well-being of visitors in search of internal improvement. This has officially been a healthy spot since 1843, when a license was granted to exploit the waters. And there the village might have rema
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Pierre Laroque, l’architecte de la Sécurité sociale française après la Libération, n’a pas, quant à lui, légué son nom à une troisième catégorie. Mais ce haut fonctionnaire qui, ayant rejoint la Résistance à Londres, connaissait bien le plan Beveridge, n’en a pas moins profondément marqué le système français. On a ainsi pu affirmer que le système f
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Throughout most of human history, people grew up enmeshed in dense family networks that knitted together distant cousins and in-laws. In these regulated-relational worlds, people’s survival, identity, security, marriages, and success depended on the health and prosperity of kin-based networks, which often formed discrete institutions known as clans
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As they walked, Sophie passed on what little she knew about Le Panier. The oldest part of Marseille, once the home of fishermen, Corsicans, and Italians, it became a hiding place during the war for Jewish refugees and others trying to escape from the Nazis. In a particularly thorough act of retribution, the Nazis ordered the area to be evacuated in
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