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Correspondent, author, travel writer, Contributing Editor to Outside, Condé Nast Traveler.

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Rio de JaMurder

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By Patrick Symmes
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Book Report: I am working through a second draft of “The Black Pill.” I finally launched into a rewrite of my Brazil chapter. This was the weakest section in my manuscript, a failed attempt to weave three threads together. One was about Bolsonaro and the Latin American version of authoritarianism. The second is an investigation into the recent assassination of a gay, black city councilwoman in Rio.
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A Global Theory of Global Theories

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By Patrick Symmes
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I hate podcasts (did I mention that a hundred times?) but here’s a really detailed interview with Harvard’s Pippa Norris, one of the authoritarianism experts I cite most.
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Pattern-Seeking Patriots: Podcast Edition

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By Patrick Symmes
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WE HATE NOT KNOWING. That’s the bottom line about conspiratorial thinking. Human intelligence evolved from basic pattern-seeking in animals, and a million years later, we still fall into the trap. Because the things that helped or hurt animals could be detected by patterns (of movement, color, sound, or behavior, etc), we still look for patterns everywhere. Even where they do not exist. A classic example is the Biblical numerologist, who scours the Gospel for codes, revelations, and predictions.
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