Peak Experiences

What they are - and some different examples.

A. The Atlantic’s Charlie Warzel on the dark side of prediction markets.

B. The New Republic’s Peter Dreier on the demise of C. Wright Mills’ Power Elite.

C. Australia has banned social media for under 16 year-olds. In what now is a paired case study - the United States has not done the same.

D. Revisiting It’s A Wonderful Life - one of Pope XIV’s top four favourite films.

E. The Shakers are in the new film The Testament of Ann Lee.

A ReligionForBreakfast podcast episode on Ann Lee and The Shakers (Explained).

The Shakers Legacy: A Short Film.

F. Autodidact author Colin Wilson on Existentialism, meeting Albert Camus, corresponding with psychologist Abraham Maslow, and what Peak Experiences are.

G. Today’s MIT OCW free course is a Seminar in Ethnography and Fieldwork by Professor Stefan Helmreich.