Lydia R. Diamond’s “Smart People,” a hard-edged satire of life among the academic multiculturati, was first performed off Broadway in 2016 in a production directed by Kenny Leon. I praised ...

By giving a short vocabulary test–something that’s a pretty good predictor of how well someone will do on a longer IQ test–the data shows roughly how smart ... about race. People who score ...

Lydia R. Diamond’s characters are walking on egg shells in her new play, “Smart People,” which opened Thursday at Second Stage’s Tony Kiser Theatre Off Broadway. As it turns out ...

What I found most compelling about this new series is the idea that it’s frequently very smart people who fall for crazy-seeming conspiracy theories. I talked to O’Sullivan about the podcast ...

The gist of the hypothesis is that smarter people are better able to deal with evolutionary novel activities — like drugs and staying up late. (Some research also suggests smart people are more ...

Stupid is as stupid does. If you can’t discuss something as fundamental as human intelligence for fear of offending people, I don’t care how smart you think you are, you’re just dumbing ...

Andrew Yang talked about his book Smart People Should Build Things: How to Restore Our Culture of Achievement, Build a Path for… read more Andrew Yang talked about his book Smart People Should ...

Being smart is a huge leg up in life, but it’s not a golden ticket. Intelligent people, despite their natural gifts, can, and often do, end up stalled in their careers and unhappy in their ...

Professor Raj Raghunathan of the University of Texas at Austin explains that smart people make themselves unhappy by measuring themselves against external yardsticks that become ever more ...