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New
syndicated column, Think!, to debunk, delight and tout importance
of critical thinking in a changing, knowledge-based world
Michael R.
LeGault, author of one of this year’s most controversial and talked
about books, Think! Why Crucial Decisions Can’t be Made in the
Blink of an Eye, is announcing the launch of a new syndicated column
dedicated to the on-going exploration of the themes in his book. The
column will expose, and suggest ways of alleviating, the root causes of
declining reasoning and thinking skills in American and Western society.
LeGault will argue flawed
thinking, rather than general social or political trends, is the main
cause of various problems such as increasing obesity, declining
educational performance, political polarization, aversion to risk
taking, greater reliance on therapy and drugs to modify and control
behavior, gender disparity in higher education and poor decision- and
policy-making in private and public sectors. But
the column will also use the Think! theme as a lens to gain a
fresh, unique perspective
on the day’s breaking news and cultural and social phenomena—for
example why attitudes about age are changing, the sex-appeal of Stephen
Hawking and what it says about the differences between men and women,
why the theory of man-induced global warming is more like religion than
science, what Tony Dungy’s efforts to cope with the loss of his son
tell us about social imperatives to erase memory and the adverse effect
this has on critical thinking. The column will also delve into “non-sequitors,”
such as “The man and the cueball—how men have learned to make bald
sexy,” and “Go ahead, rate me—our fixation with evaluation,” and
“The changing tactics of panhandling.”
The
column’s debut will roughly coincide with the launch of the trade
paperback edition of Think! scheduled for October. Since the
release of Think! in January 2006, LeGault had given over 70
television and radio interviews, including interviews on CNN, FOX, ABC
and C-SPAN.
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