John Tierney
John Marion Tierney is a journalist who has worked for the New York Times since 1990. Tierney writes a science column, Findings, and the TierneyLab blog for the Times. The TierneyLab takes a contrarian view about science and society:The Lab's work is guided by two founding principles: 1. Just because an idea appeals to a lot of people doesn't mean it's wrong. 2. But that's a good working theory.Tierney identifies himself as a libertarian, and has become increasingly identified with libertarianism. His columns have been critical of rent stabilization, the war on drugs, Amtrak and compulsory recycling. His 1996 article "Recycling Is Garbage" broke the New York Times Magazine's hate mail record. (Further information can be found at Wikipedia, and at the author's biographical page at the New York Times.)
10 Books Written
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A Walk in the Garden of Time
by John Tierney
Filled with simple verse and proverbs, A Walk in the Garden shares with the reader the joys of nature. Bright colored pencil illustrations accompany the inspirational words of many authors, including John Keats, William Wordsworth and William Shakespeare. Creating these books has truly been a family project, particularly with A Walk in the Garden, the second in the Harvard Ranch series. This volum
China, the New Paper Tiger
by John Tierney
China has been China for four thousand years; concealment may be a reaction to a past redolent of autocracy, but it seems prevelent in all aspects of Chinese life. Confucious' idea of keeping the masses ignorant in order to make them easier to govern remains in force.We in America have had, or had until just recently, an underlying assumption that things are going to get better and bet
The Book
by John Tierney
The BOOK is a fictional account of a newly ordained Southern conservative preacher who gets his first job in a Northern progressive church. The interaction of core beliefs provide a dramatic context for contrasting and sometimes mutually exclusive views of what God meant when He said this or that in the original Book. The story centers on the Reverend Peter Simon Christianson who sets
Jordan Peterson and the Second Religiousness: Explaining the Jordan Peterson Phenomenon
by John Tierney
Rating: 4.3 ⭐
There are those who say we are at some great spiritual “moment” in the West’s history. In fact, we are at the moment when the West’s death knell has been sounded.Humanity is not entering any “Great Awakening”. The exact opposite is true. Humanity is embracing the Second Religiousness and the Great Endarkening predicted by metahistorian Oswald Spengler in his masterwork "The Decline of
The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It
by John Tierney
Rating: 3.8 ⭐
"The most important book at the borderland of psychology and politics that I have ever read."—Martin E. P. Seligman, Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology at that University of Pennsylvania and author of Learned Optimism Why are we devastated by a word of criticism even when it’s mixed with lavish praise? Because our brains are wired to focus on the bad. This negativity effect exp
Key Perspectives in Criminology
by John Tierney
Key Perspectives in Criminology is not simply a dictionary of criminology, but a welcome introduction for those with a genuine interest in the terms, concepts, themes and debates in the field.
The Past as Prologue: "Over There" in American History
by John Tierney
The Past as Prologue ("Over There" in American History) is a collection of essays (162) written between 2015 and 2021. The central theme, from the main title, is an attempt to tie history to the present and future on the subject, bearing in mind the recent domestic turmoil to "erase" aspects of "Americana" or to alter the past in order to build a different future. In this sense the book is "tradit
The Past as Prologue: “Over There” in American History
by John Tierney
The Past as Prologue ("Over There" in American History) John TierneyThe Past as Prologue ("Over There" in American History) is a collection of essays (162) written between 2015 and 2021. The central theme, from the main title, is an attempt to tie history to the present and future on the subject, bearing in mind the recent domestic turmoil to "erase" aspects of "Americana" or to