David McRaney
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About
Books
Speaking
Podcast
Press
Contact
Books
You Are Not So Smart
You Are Now Less Dumb
New book
Coming soon
The
You Are Not So Smart
Podcast
Interview with Central Standard
I sat down with the fine people at KCUR’s Central Standard to talk about my upcoming book about changing your mind.
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Interview with Dr. Drew
I visited Dr. Drew’s podcast to talk about the Dunning-Kruger Effect, changing your mind, and how to deal with people who refuse to accept evidence that threatens their ideologies.
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Interview with Rationally Speaking
I spent an afternoon with Julia Galef on the Rationally Speaking podcast discussing why it is so hard to change your mind and the minds of others.
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Beautiful Clutter
Two potted plants live near a yellow rocking chair on the tiny front porch sitting on some weathered green astroturf. A bell clangs when you pull open the single front door, and then that wonderful backdraft of a million inked letters on thousands of aging paper pages rushes past you.
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How Fox News Stole My Father
You need captives to create a captive audience.
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Sleeping with the Dead
Jennifer Johnson no longer gets chills when she hears them. In the business they are called rattles or crackles. They are the sounds a body produces when trapped air makes its way back through the larynx. A death groan.
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Interview with Dime Magazine
Reckoning with Southern roots - DIME Magazine interviews best-selling Mississippi author David McRaney about what it means to be a Southern writer who doesn’t write about hounddogs or whiskey.
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