Group Narcissism - Erik Torenberg

Housekeeping: We just launched our most ambitious podcast yet, a narrative podcast about nuclear energy co-hosted by Packy McCormick of Not Boring fame and Julia DeWahl, a leading thinker and builder in the nuclear space. Turpentine also announced that we’re now doing 350K downloads a month across our network and growing fast. We’re looking to expand shows into different verticals and then expand formats to become a more full fledged tech media company (also looking to grow our team across the board). OK, onto the piece of the week…. John Cuddihy was a sociologist who tried to make sense of how America was unique in its ability to assimilate so many groups so successfully, when so many other regions of the world were caught up in endless ethnic conflict. Cuddihy’s model is that the United States' “civil religion”, by which he also means “religion of civility” has always had high WASPs values and virtues — impeccable manners, premium on education, work ethic, etc. And each new generatio

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