The 2018 Overthinking It Holiday Gift Guide
Our annual holiday gift guide for the Overthinker in your life, with gift ideas ranging from smart games to fun books to a giant T-Rex costume.
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Books on Overthinking It
Five Thought Experiments on Editorial Ethics
Publishing can be a morally ambiguous business. In these scenarios, what would you do?
Book Club: Saga, Week 4
The Overthinking It Book Club Podcast tackles Saga, Chapters 10-12.
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Book Club: Saga, Week 3
The Overthinking It Book Club Podcast tackles Saga, Chapters 7-9.
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Book Club: Saga, Week 2
Welcome back! It’s the summer and that means it is time for the Overthinking It Book Club. We are Overthinking the comic book series “Saga,” and this is Week 1, covering Chapters 4–6 of the series. Join Ben, Richard, Jordan, and Matt as we … Continued
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Book Club: Saga, Week 1
Tune in to Week 1 of our Saga Book Club as we discuss the subversive nature of alligator butlers, the principal agent problem, and parenting as creativity.
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An Anatomy of Envy (with apologies to B.J. Novak)
An exhaustive analysis of one writer’s creative anxiety, and how he realized it was stupid.
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Overthinking It Book Club: Slaughterhouse Five
The Overthinking It Book Club is back! This summer, the OTI community will be breaking down Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five.”
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Do the Hunger Games Actually Work?
Do the Hunger Games actually work to control the citizenry of Panem? Or do they just fan the flames of revolution?
EnderThinking It: Marketing, Morality and Trailer #2
What does the marketing campaign for “Ender’s Game” tell us about how the movie will tackle the central moral dilemma of the story? And what’s with the “Starship Trooper”-esque commercials?