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What if the very thing that drives us to succeed is the same thing that keeps us from being happy? The Rosebud Phenomenon offers a powerful lens through which we can understand this paradox. Borrowing ...

Becoming friends with someone who is constantly worried about status can be exhausting but also worrisome. How do you know they really like you? Perhaps you’ve recently met the friend of a friend who ...

This paper, an 18-month ethnographic investigation of international art fairs (IAFs), shows how market platforms can have a coercive effect, inducing sellers (i.e., art galleries) to participate ...

Scammers and cheats are the paradigmatic figures of our age, and not just because a con man is president of the United States. Again and again in recent years, people who’ve scaled the cultural ...

On Instagram feeds, martini glasses clink in what feels like a never-ending loop. Photo carousels from nights out show low-lit steakhouses, tartare and souffles, Luxardo cherries. (What, in this ...

After Democratic nominee Kamala Harris narrowly lost the United States' 2024 presidential election to Donald Trump, many pundits argued that Trump did a better job appealing to Americans' "economic ...

Somewhere, sometime, someone had a good idea: Let’s create a public-art project that identifies a city with an endemic animal. Let’s cookie-cutter-produce them, get businesses to sponsor them on ...