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Welcome to the Quillette podcast, hosted on alternate weeks by me, Jonathan Kay, and by Iona Italia.

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I'm your host this week, Iona Italia. My guest today is evolutionary psychologist Rob

Kerspan. I'll be talking to him about his book, Why Everyone Else

is a Hippocrat, Evolution and the Modular Mind. Rob and I discuss the social payoffs of ignorance

and false beliefs, why the concepts of self-esteem and willpower are deeply flawed, what

explains some of the contradictory impulses and

inconsistent behaviours people exhibit, and why we don't have a little man in our heads?

I hope you enjoy my conversation with Rob Curseband.

I really enjoyed, I enjoyed almost everything about this book. I think the one thing that I didn't

dislike is the title, which is why everyone else is a hypocrite. It's an extremely misleading title

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