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In The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life (2019), New York Times columnist David Brooks argues that Western societies have become too individualistic and self-centered. As a result, people have experienced an overall increase in loneliness, isolation, consumerism, and workaholism... Purchase this in-depth …

Note: This is an analysis of the book, not the original book. Robert Wright's Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment (2017) considers Buddhism through the lens of evolutionary psychology, a discipline that regards natural selection as the provenance of many mental traits. …