Jordan Shapiro

We are the kids who grew up playing Space Invaders, Frogger, Q-bert, and Super Mario Brothers. Now, as adults, we’re respectable contributors to a civilized professionals, parents, leaders, and policy makers.Still, the imagery of the games we played as children remains permanently seared into our personal and collective unconscious. The game world now shapes the way we think. It forms the way we p

How do we navigate the tensions between yoga and consumerism? As yogis we want to let go of attachments, as consumers we want hot Lululemon clothing. But these things are not as far apart as they seem. Buying Dharma is about the way modern postural yoga helps us live with the contradictions between our rhetoric and our actions. Jordan Shapiro takes a look at Yoga from a depth psycholog

Four decades ago, archetypal psychology offered a different way of viewing all things psychological. As radical and useful as this move was forty years ago, however, it is time to question the sustainability of tenets like these for our contemporary world. As the highly turbulent 21st Century enters its second decade, it is time to ask ourselves “why archetypes?” and “why images?” This book explor

A provocative look at the new, digital landscape of childhood and how to navigate it.In The New Childhood , Jordan Shapiro provides a hopeful counterpoint to the fearful hand-wringing that has come to define our narrative around children and technology. Drawing on groundbreaking research in economics, psychology, philosophy, and education, The New Childhood shows how technology is guid

A thoughtful and "utterly mind-blowing" exploration of fatherhood and masculinity in the 21st century ( New York Times ). There are hundreds of books on parenting, and with good reason—becoming a parent is scary, difficult, and life-changing. But when it comes to books about parenting identity , rather than the nuts and bolts of raising children, nearly all are about what it's like to