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Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Are you seeing the world through jerk goggles?

Maybe it’s an understatement to say we’re living in a world of jerks. Do we need to list the reasons why? There are the sexual assault allegations, insults issued from certain corridors of power… Twitter.

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By Madeleine Brand • Nov 28, 2017 • 1 min read

Maybe it’s an understatement to say we’re living in a world of jerks. Do we need to list the reasons why? There are the sexual assault allegations, insults issued from certain corridors of power… Twitter. So how do you know if you may be among the jerky masses?

Eric Schwitzgebel teaches at UC Riverside. Photo credit: David D. Schwitzgebel.

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