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'Absolutely splendid... essential for understanding why there is so much bad thinking in political life right now.'—David Brooks, New York TimesHow to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we're not as good at thinking as we assume—but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life. As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications like The Atlantic and Harper's, Alan Jacobs has spent his adult life belonging to communities that often clash in America's culture wars. And in his years of confronting the big issues that divide us—political, social, religious—Jacobs has learned that many of our fiercest disputes occur not because we're doomed to be divided, but because the people involved simply aren't thinking. Most of us don't want to think. Thinking is trouble. Thinking can force us out of familiar, comforting habits, and it can complicate our relationships with like-minded friends. Finally, thinking is slow, and that's a problem when our habits of consuming information (mostly online) leave us lost in the spin cycle of social media, partisan bickering, and confirmation bias. In this smart, endlessly entertaining book, Jac

Who reads How to Think : A Survival Guide for a World at Odds?

Author

Alan Jacobs

Publisher

Crown Currency

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780451499615

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Business, Management, Fiction

Rating

4.11 / 5 (120 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14