Turi Munthe

Coming out on 14th May, 2026. Please see link in bio to pre-order.

Great interview with @ajkeen - keenon.substack.com/p/we-all-hallu… - On the difference between pluralism and relativism - On how to think of the other side: if you can only explain their views as dumb or mad, the problem is with you - On why we prefer to be wrong together than right alone

An answer at last! *Why hot people are right wing…* An extract from the new book of the brilliant @turi unherd.com/2026/07/why-ho…

@turi @TKPullinger The full conversation is now live on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/watch?v=qZxzp_…

Read ‘A Billion Years of Sex Differences’ by @SteveStuWill It’s brilliant - eye-opening, immensely clear, level headed, rich in detail - and also hilarious

What if your beliefs aren't as self-made as you think? A fascinating review of Turi Munthe's book on the hidden forces shaping how we think. insightfultake.com/details/why-we… #BookReview #Psychology #CriticalThinking #HumanBehavior #InsightfulTake

@patrickxwest 😆 indeed... it took 2 yrs to write, and a year to research beforehand!

@turi Very compendious!

spectator.com/article/the-hu… My review of 'Why We Think What We Think', by Turi Munthe, in this week's Spectator

@B_R_Hooper THAT sounds fun. We're owed a catch up at some point, though...

@turi Sorry to miss this! Timezones plus I’ll be camping, without signal

This will be my first long-form conversation - 90 mins on the book. Please join!

@rorysutherland @amazon Thanks, Rory!

Excellent book so far...... Why We Think What We Think: The Unexpected Origins of Our Deepest Beliefs amzn.eu/d/02rIWAjc #Amazon via @Amazon

@turi spent years studying why people disagree — and what he found will make you question how you formed every opinion you hold. He joins host Taylor Zapolsky for "On the Origin of Opinions: Why We Think What We Think" — a SuperSalon exploring the surprising patterns that shape our worldview and how to build a society that thrives in disagreement. Coming soon on Interintellect, join us: interintellect.com/salons/on-the-…

@jeffjarvis @FT Thank you Jeff! I miss you - been too long!

Congrats to @turi for a rave @FT review of his new book. I have it on order. Why We Think What We Think — the deeper forces that shape our beliefs ft.com/content/82e7c7…

Very much looking forward to this. If you're in Oxford, please come

How we decorate our homes, the food we order in restaurants, the holidays we take, the things we buy to signal our status, even the kind of sex we have... all are expressions of our deepest values. substack.com/profile/860643…

🚨Some GOOD media news: We're using the money we raised last year to double the size of our team by the end of 2024, hiring journalists in Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham, Liverpool and... London. Yes, the time has come - as reported by today's @FT.

@liverpoolpost Loved this. Congrats

‘Cavafy’s verse is free, simple, and universal’ livpost.co.uk/p/in-search-of…

Once those have been eliminated, their extraversion predicts very long lives, because there’s a correlation between optimism and health, and extraverts are the great optimists. more here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11374751/

Because nunneries are places where extraverts have to sublimate the parts of their personality that most present them to risk. Nuns aren’t really allowed to go motor-bike racing or bungee-jumping or all-night raving - they have to rein in their riskiest or risqué-ist desires.

The personality trait that predicts lower life expectancy is extroversion. Extroverts like risk, they like parties, they're more likely to drink, smoke, sky-dive etc... EXCEPT in one beautiful instance. In a convent, extravert nuns are the nuns who live the longest. Why?